I always thought that it was added so that people who do complex math
would not have do any pointer hacking. It is a lot nicer to be able to
write:
a = c_add(c_mul(b,c),d);
then
{ struct cmplx t;
c_mul(&t,&b,&c);
c_add(&a,&t,&d);
}
Mark Biggar
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