Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!cmcl2!phri!dasys1!wfp
From: wfp@dasys1.UUCP (William Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Power operator?
Summary: If you really want it (I don't)...
Message-ID: <2516@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jan 88 08:42:27 GMT
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If you really want an exponentiation operator in ANSI C (as it happens, I
don't) here's a candidate: <<

I'm implementing a compiler for a special purpose language that looks a lot
like C.  The language spec that I was given specifies that the << and >>
operators, when applied to floating point objects, act as exponentiation
and inverse exponentiation operators; a logical sort of extension of
right and left shifts of integer objects, isnt it?


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