Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ames!necntc!linus!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka
From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Power operator?
Message-ID: <2649@mmintl.UUCP>
Date: 12 Jan 88 22:10:00 GMT
References: <47000029@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> <10063@mimsy.UUCP> <646@l.cc.purdue.edu> <6982@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Reply-To: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Organization: Multimate International, E. Hartford, CT.
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In article <6982@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
>If someone wants to propose a good syntax for a built-in exponentiation
>operator, send it in during the second public review of the draft standard.

I would vote for x ! y.  It doesn't strike me as all that important a
feature to add at this stage, though.

Another thought: how about an #if pragma(name) construct, similar to
#if defined(name), to test whether a pragma is defined by the
implementation?
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