Andrei:

>Walter wants to keep complex literals. I strongly believe they are completely 
>useless.<

Thank you for your answer. So far I have used D complex numbers only two times, 
so I don't have to use them often, so I don't feel a strong need for them. But 
I like that people that use them often will find a handy syntax for those 
literals.

Generally I like good literals, it's one of the differences between D and dumb 
languages. For example I'd like DMD to support multi-precision integer literals 
too:
bigint x = 100_000_000_000_000_000_000_000_000_000_000_000_000;

We may write down a list of all the advantages and disadvantages of complex 
literals (and I'd like someone that writes code that processes complex values 
to help in the writing of this list), and then try to decide rationally to keep 
them or remove them. I don't have strong feelings about this topic, so I will 
have no problems with both results.

Bye,
bearophile

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