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Subject: Re: Complex type ?
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Date: Thu, 7-May-87 02:11:15 EDT
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Posted: Thu May  7 02:11:15 1987
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> 	C is an evolving language.  I will make a possibly sacrilegious
> suggestion that the type "complex" be incorporated.  After all, such a
> type is now a part of LISP (Common).

With any luck, by the time there is sufficient demand for a "complex"
data type in C, it will have been supplanted by C++.  You can add a
"complex" data type to C++ simply by using facilities in the language
including operator overloading.