Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!nuchat!splut!jay
From: jay@splut.UUCP (Jay Maynard)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Power operator?
Message-ID: <326@splut.UUCP>
Date: 12 Jan 88 01:13:27 GMT
References: <6982@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Organization: Confederate Microsystems, League City, TX
Lines: 29
Summary: Here's a suggestion for an operator...

In article <6982@brl-smoke.ARPA>, gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug 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 must have missed how to do this...besides, I'm not a C guru (a
barely-reformed Turbo Pascal hacker!)...

> 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.

(my smart remark suppressed) Does anyone really write it this way, instead
of x * *y?

> x ^ y is also already taken.

So it is. How about (WARNING: KLUDGE-O-MATIC OUTPUT COMING) :

x *^ y

Well, it was an idea...kinda gives the flavor of a multiplicative operation,
and I don't think ^ is legal as a monadic operator...

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