[Help-gsl] Why are standard (*, +, etc) operators not overloaded for complex numbers in C++

[Vincent Vandalon]

Dear All,

I am curious why the standard binary operators are not overloaded for the
gsl_complex type in C++; I presume this overloading is omitted
intentionally (since you can quickly write them yourself). Was the choice
to omit overloaded operators mainly driven by the desire to avoid
accidentally/non-explicit casting of a built-in type to gsl_complex?

Regards and thanks for making & maintaining this great library!

Vincent.