Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!nuchat!splut!jay
From: jay@splut.UUCP (Jay Maynard)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Power operator?
Message-ID: <327@splut.UUCP>
Date: 12 Jan 88 01:54:05 GMT
References: <6982@brl-smoke.ARPA> <326@splut.UUCP>
Organization: Confederate Microsystems, League City, TX
Lines: 21
Summary: Oops. I thought this would be original...

In article <326@splut.UUCP>, I wrote, as a suggested power operator:
> x *^ y

Unfortunately, due to newsfeed constipation, I wrote this before I saw
someone-or-another's posting suggesting this very thing. Something about
great minds...

Then I got to thinking about the objections about putting a full-fledged
exponentiator into the language as an operator. It struck me that it could
be defined as analogous to % - only useful if the second operand is integer.
That, in turn, raised another question: What does % do if you  feed it
something like x % 6.39?

Maybe this idea ios getting better? Maybe worse? Like I said in the last
message, I'm not a C guru - just a semi-converted Turbo Pascal hacker...

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