: in PDL 2.040 in April 2021, "native complex" data (with types cfloat or cdouble) worked properly, eliminating the 0th "real or imaginary" dimension. That then made the
operator work in standard PDL with native complex numbers. Around the same time, PDL::LinearAlgebra and PDL::FFTW3 were made to also work with "native complex" data, allowing it to be used with those fast C/Fortran libraries.