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From: ark@alice.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Critique of Wiener/Pinson
Message-ID: <7815@alice.UUCP>
Date: 17 Apr 88 03:20:16 GMT
References: <8063@apple.Apple.Com> <6590037@hplsla.HP.COM>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Liberty Corner NJ
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Posted: Sat Apr 16 23:20:16 1988

In article <6590037@hplsla.HP.COM>, jima@hplsla.UUCP writes:

> To suggest that:
 
> x = myComplexNumber.re();
> y = myComplexNumber.im();
 
> is in any way better than:
 
> x = myComplexNumber.re;
> y = myComplexNumber.im;
 
> seems ludicrous to me.

Not at all.  If you allow MyComplexNumber.re without parentheses,
you're stuck if you ever decide to start using polar coordinates.