Re: [Vala] Complex number support?

[Vlad Grecescu <b100dian gmail com>]

On 12/13/10, pancake <pancake youterm com> wrote:
> -1 portability is VERY important if we want to use vala outside gnu/linux.
>
> PD: gcc extensions sucks.
>
> I would suggest adding support for operator overloading only at vapi
> level (via
> CCode), so we can create GMP bindings (or OpenSSL Big number) ones and
> use the basic types of those libraries are native ones in Vala.

there's an interesting discussion on D's op. overloading
reddit.com/r/programming/comments/eklq0/andrei_alexandrescus_talk_at_accu_silicon_valley/
among others

> On 12/12/10 00:39, Aleksander Wabik wrote:
> > > when i talked about the complex numbers was because it's interesting to
> > > use
> > > the C99 spec to reduce the code size in many programs
> > +1. I'm for every change in vala that let's it use more and more gcc
> > features, and give more control over C code generation.
> >
> > best regards,
> > AW.