Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!nuchat!sugar!peter
From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: power operator
Message-ID: <1409@sugar.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jan 88 15:51:12 GMT
References: <11182@brl-adm.ARPA> <2197@haddock.ISC.COM>
Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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In article <2197@haddock.ISC.COM>, karl@haddock.ISC.COM (Karl Heuer) writes:
  [ no power operator in 'C' because... ]
> the authors did intentionally avoid having nontrivial semantics on the builtin
> operators.

That's the core of my objection to structure passing/assignment. The semantics
of a structure copy are pretty complex for an atomic operation. In the general
case they involve a loop.
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