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From: pardo@uw-june.UUCP (David Keppel)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Power operator?
Message-ID: <3933@uw-june.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jan 88 21:22:13 GMT
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Reply-To: pardo@uw-june.UUCP (David Keppel)
Organization: U of Washington, Computer Science, Seattle
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[Why isn't there a power (e.g., a**2) operator in C?]

The original intent of C was simplicity.  Having ** is a fine idea,
but we have to draw a line somewhere and it was defaulted for us by K&R
a long time ago.  If we have ** then perhaps we should also have ||= ?

Worried about runtime overhead of calling pow(3m)?  Talk to somebody
about inline code expansion or use C++.

	;-D on  (Does anybody have a C->Cobol Compiler ?-)  Pardo