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From: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
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Subject: Re: complex
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 1996 18:52:31 -0700
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To: Gurunandan R Bhat <grbhat AT unigoa DOT ernet DOT in>
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Gurunandan R Bhat wrote:
> [snip]
> this has always worked for me, though i must confess i have never had
> occasion to port this kind of code to other platforms. in a recent (three
> weeks ago?) posting (weiqi?) it was mentioned that this is now obsolete
> and is moreover not quite ansi. the reason had to do with templates etc,
> something that, i, with almost no deep knowledge of c++, did not
> understand.
> 
> i would be grateful then, if some one could post the canonical syntax for
> the above sketchy code which is ansi conformant and as portable as possible

The revised syntax is in version 2.01 of the FAQ, in section 8.11.  I will
quote from it a brief passage with instructions...

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[...]  Instead of
`class Complex' there is now a *template* `class complex<double>', and
`Complex' is now a typedef which uses that template class.  Look into the
headers `lang/cxx/_complex.h' and `lang/cxx/std/complext.h' and you will see
that change.  [...]
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John <fighteer AT cs DOT com>

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