Re: [OctDev] complex error function

[Thomas Weber]

On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 02:42:25PM -0500, Steven G. Johnson wrote:
> On 11/21/12 12:50 PM, Thomas Weber wrote:
> >Get the code included into one of the existing code bases (maybe [1])
> >or implement erfc for libc. Less work for everybody.
> 
> (You mention boost, but like the C99 standard, the current C++
> standard only specifies erf and erfc for real arguments, nor does it
> include a scaled error function.)
> 
> The objection to this in general is: if you won't include support
> for a complex error function until it is incorporated into the C or
> C++ standard library, you may be waiting a long .... long .... long
> .... time.

Boost has influenced the C++ standard committee in more than one way. And
frankly, I do not care about a committee that may or may not introduce
this function.  Sometimes you follow a leadership and sometimes you have
to *be* said leadership.

        Thomas