Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
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From: flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal)
Subject: Re: Power operator?
Message-ID: <1988Jan18.231840.29852@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Organization: University of Toronto
References: <6982@brl-smoke.ARPA> <326@splut.UUCP> <327@splut.UUCP> <22773@hi.unm.edu> <3492@mtgzz.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 18-Jan-88 23:18:39 EST


In article <3492@mtgzz.UUCP> dam@mtgzz.UUCP (XMRN40000[kvm]-d.a.morano) writes:
>the '**' can still be used for the power operator since the types of
>the operands cannot be 'pointer to something'.

the lexer cannot determine this, so this is effectively operator
overloading.  rather a complication to introduce into C at this time
just to provide a slight syntactic advantage for an obscure operator.
-- 
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