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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Power operator?
Message-ID: <10090@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jan 88 02:20:57 GMT
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Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <11169@brl-adm.ARPA> V4039%TEMPLEVM.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
(Stan Horwitz) writes:
>  Chris Torek says the function pow(x,y) in C's math library is C's power
>operator.  Sorry Chris, the pow(x,y) is not an operator, it is a FUNCTION.

Is not!  See the dpANS.  If you want a function, you must `#undef pow'.

>Syntactically, there is a difference. . . .

True.  I think this should be ignored.
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