A new arithmeticish type would take more effort, I understand. Marc, are there plans to incorporate your patch, perhaps in an extended form, in a release any time soon? My apologies if I'm addressing these questions to the wrong person.
Regards, Martin On 26 May 2016 at 11:11, Marc Glisse <marc.gli...@inria.fr> wrote: > On Thu, 26 May 2016, martin krastev wrote: > >> Thank you for the reply. So it's a known g++ issue with a candidate >> patch. Looking at the patch, I was wondering, what precludes the >> generic vector types form being proper arithmetic types? > > > In some cases vectors act like arithmetic types (operator+, etc), and in > others they don't (conversions in general). We have scalarish_type_p for > things that are scalars or vectors, we could add arithmeticish_type_p ;-) > > (I think the name arithmetic comes directly from the standard, so we don't > want to change its meaning) > > -- > Marc Glisse
