Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!necntc!ima!haddock!karl
From: karl@haddock.ISC.COM (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Power operator?
Message-ID: <2332@haddock.ISC.COM>
Date: 20 Jan 88 00:53:17 GMT
References: <47000029@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> <10063@mimsy.UUCP> <646@l.cc.purdue.edu> <6982@brl-smoke.ARPA> <2649@mmintl.UUCP>
Reply-To: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Organization: Interactive Systems, Boston
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Summary: not "!"

In article <2649@mmintl.UUCP> franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) writes:
>[If there should be a power operator,] I would vote for x ! y.

As I pointed out in a previous article, that doesn't allow for a corresponding
compound assignment operator (since "!=" is taken).  Besides, it seems a waste
to use a one-character operator for something so seldom necessary.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint