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From: nather@ut-sally.UUCP (Ed Nather)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Power operator?
Message-ID: <10026@ut-sally.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jan 88 16:42:45 GMT
References: <11169@brl-adm.ARPA>
Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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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.
> Syntactically, there is a difference, though the result is the same.

As a matter of interest, would there be any ambiguity in using

      a ^^ b

instead of

      pow(a,b)

?

I can see how the Fortran notation  a**b is ambiguous if "b" could be a
pointer ...


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Ed Nather
Astronomy Dept, U of Texas @ Austin
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