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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Complex type ?
Message-ID: <5839@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 7-May-87 01:02:53 EDT
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Posted: Thu May  7 01:02:53 1987
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Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
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In article <1148@ius2.cs.cmu.edu> edw@ius2.cs.cmu.edu (Eddie Wyatt) writes:
>    int x;
>    complex y,z;
>    y = x + z;
>Is it legal? 

Certainly it would be.  A more interesting example is:
	x = z;
If I were designing the extension I'd make this one illegal.
(There would be "real part", "imaginary part", and "modulus"
operators, and you'd have to specify which one you mean.)

The point about each new feature interacting with the ones
that already exist is valid and important.