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From: warwick@cs.uq.oz.au (Warwick Allison)
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Subject: Re: Why no ** operator in Modula2?
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Date: 4 Jun 91 23:37:26 GMT
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>note: Wirth: a compiler has to be as small as possible (see also Oberon).

>for my opinion this is a good solution for compiler writers and it is easy to
>port such a compiler (in comparision to e.g. a ADA-compiler). decentralism
>(hm?)

Agreed.  Except we cannot define our own "**", we have to use one of...

y:=IntegerToRealPower(A,x)
y:=RealToIntegerPower(A,x)
B:=IntegerToIntegerPower(A,x)
y:=RealToRealPower(A,x)

:-)
Warwick.

Actually, I take that back (-:, I think I would prefer to use those functions.
Bye, I've got a module to write...
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