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From: sdw@hpsad.HP.COM (Steve Warwick)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: taking powers with "^"
Message-ID: <1920004@hpsad.HP.COM>
Date: 25 Jun 91 15:45:45 GMT
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The fact that overloaded operators inheret the precedence of the
underlying operator has always seemed strange to me - it seems to
retrict the meaning of "overloading" and "operator definition",
although from the standpoint of readability, it seems like the right
thing to do.

For my purposes, making a pre-defined power operator a part of the
language would go a long way to obsoleting F**TRAN, since so many
other problems have been so elegently solved

However, people seem to like C++ as a "meta language", so a generic
operator definition feature fits the style better....

This is a case where having the ability to define an operator,
such as "^^" or "@@" makes sense. ( also with a reletive precedence and
grouping preference ).