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From: john@nmtsun.nmt.edu (John Shipman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Floating-point arithmetic and language standardization
Summary: But C doesn't support COMPLEX type.
Message-ID: <1263@nmtsun.nmt.edu>
Date: 26 Jan 88 04:17:58 GMT
References: <12359761762.8.BEEBEX@SCIENCE.UTAH.EDU>
Organization: Zoological Data Processing
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In article <12359761762.8.BEEBEX@SCIENCE.UTAH.EDU>, Beebe@SCIENCE
(Nelson H.F. Beebe) writes:
>  ... [most of posting deleted]
> Since the topic of Fortran to C convertors pops up
> frequently in both the Fortran and C newsgroups, there is
> clear evidence that many Fortran users are contemplating, or
> are already in progress with, a conversion from Fortran to
> C....
> [C may] play an
> increasingly important role in scientific computations.
> 
What about type COMPLEX?  Presumably the FORTRAN-to-C translators are
generating calls to library routines to handle COMPLEX calculations.

Questions for you folks in net-land:

1.  Will complex-number users mind writing a lot of function calls,
    instead of just writing expressions as they do now in FORTRAN?

2.  Has the standards committee considered a complex type for C?



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