<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 10, 2022, at 5:48 PM, Fred J. Tydeman <<a href="mailto:tydeman@tybor.com" class="">tydeman@tybor.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">On Fri, 11 Feb 2022 00:48:11 +0100 Vincent Lefevre wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="">If the 'i' suffix is added, what about the imaginary infinities?<br class="">Will a new macro be added or is multiplying by 'I' sufficient?<br class=""></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>Right. The i suffix couldn’t replace the I macro, which would still be needed for INFINITY*I and NAN*I. I suspect this is the reason for not proposing the suffix initially.<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class="">A problem is: I is not required to be imaginary, it can be complex.<br class="">If it is complex, then INFINITY * I ends up being <br class="">CMPLXF(NAN, INFINITY) <br class=""></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class="">If imaginary types are not supported, but the 'i' suffix is supported,<br class="">I do not know what INFINITY * <a href="http://1.fi" class="">1.fi</a> would end up being.<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>I suppose the type domain determined by the suffix could depend on whether imaginary times are supported. Then, if imaginary types are not supported, <a href="http://1.fi" class="">1.fi</a> would be the float complex number (0, 1).</div><div><br class=""></div><div>I don’t see a WG14 proposal for this.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>- Jim Thomas</div><div><br class=""></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class="">---<br class="">Fred J. Tydeman Tydeman Consulting<br class=""><a href="mailto:tydeman@tybor.com" class="">tydeman@tybor.com</a> Testing, numerics, programming<br class="">+1 (702) 608-6093 Vice-chair of PL22.11 (ANSI "C")<br class="">Sample C99+FPCE tests: <a href="http://www.tybor.com" class="">http://www.tybor.com</a><br class="">Savers sleep well, investors eat well, spenders work forever.<br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Cfp-interest mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Cfp-interest@oakapple.net" class="">Cfp-interest@oakapple.net</a><br class="">http://mailman.oakapple.net/mailman/listinfo/cfp-interest<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>