On 27/01/18 19:38, Vincent Vandalon wrote:
Dear All,
I am curious why the standard binary operators are not overloaded for the
gsl_complex type in C++; I presume this overloading is omitted
intentionally (since you can quickly write them yourself). Was the choice
to omit overloaded operators mainly driven by the desire to avoid
accidentally/non-explicit casting of a built-in type to gsl_complex?
Presumably because gsl is written in C.
I don’t think C has a complex type. In any case the C++ complex type
seems to be difficult to make compatible with the gsl representation
while maintaining the original code in C.
I realise it is possible to do some sort of conversion/casting in C++.
But this is not likely efficient.
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John D Lamb
