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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Power operator?
Message-ID: <6982@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 8 Jan 88 05:29:06 GMT
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Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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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 wouldn't mind having one, although the only way it is
likely to occur at this point is if some other problem forces a third
public review anyway (i.e., it won't be caused by adding the
exponentiation operator).

The x ** y syntax conflicts with existing C, which already ascribes
a different meaning to this, although I do think that anyone who has
been writing ** without a space in between deserves problems anyway.

x ^ y is also already taken.