<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">The forwarded message responded to the action item<div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><p class="Body" style="margin: 0in; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; border: medium;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> Jim: Write note for Rajan to bring up for WG14 re. removing imaginary I.<o:p></o:p></span></p></blockquote><div><br></div><div>- Jim Thomas</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jim Thomas <jaswthomas@sbcglobal.net><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Issues with N3537</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">August 13, 2025 at 3:07:22 PM PDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rajan Bhakta <rbhakta@us.ibm.com><br></span></div><br><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div>Hi Rajan,</div><div><br></div><div>The following is from my notes about N3581:</div><div><br></div><div>1. Under Impact is</div><div><br></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div><div>Code that uses <font face="Courier New">I</font> and wants to continue to compile in C2Y can always simply add the definition explicitly:</div></div><div><div><br></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div><div><font face="Courier New">#include <complex></font></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div><div><font face="Courier New">#define I _Complex_I</font></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div><div><font face="Courier New">// or</font></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div><div><font face="Courier New">constexpr auto I = _Complex_I;</font></div></div></blockquote></blockquote><div><div><br></div><div>This should be noted in C2Y. A good place might be 7.3.1, whence the macro <font face="Courier New">I</font> has been removed.</div><div><br></div><div>2. Change to 7.3 #3 doesn’t account for N3537</div><div><br></div><div>3. Change to 6.7.11 #28. Prefer writing value as 5 + <i>i</i> 3, per 6.2.5 #17</div><div><br></div><div>4. Change to 7.3.9.5 doesn’t account for N3536</div><div><br></div><div>5. Change to G.3.2 doesn’t fit with N3550</div></div><div><br></div><div>- Jim</div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>