Le 21/01/2012 20:49, Benjamin Root a écrit :
Consider making an assignment first to the real part, and then to the imaginary part, the second assignment would wipe out the first (if we want to be consistent). Charles case is pretty tricky and I may be confused. However, I don't see why "the 2nd assignment should wipe out the 1st".
Indeed, considering with start with C = NA (complex) 1) When assigning the real part of C to some value, the mask indeed should be clear (if we assume this operation zeroes the imaginary part, which would make sense) 2) When assigning the imaginary part to some value, C is no more masked and there should be indeed no need to clear the real part. I'm assuming here it is easy to access & set separately the real/im part of a complex number. However, I pretty much unaware of complex number memory representation... If this separate access is not easy, then I would question the ability to have a real/im part view on complex data. Pierre