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From: mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Power operator?
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Date: 5 Jan 88 20:24:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!mcdonald    Jan  5 14:24:00 1988


I've been wondering why there is no power operator in C. Did the ANSI 
committee consider adding one, and if so, why wasn't it done? I'm
referring to the construct in fortran  X**2  or X**7 . This would seem
to be extremely useful and trivial to implement.

Doug McDonald