Lars T. Kyllingstad wrote:
The fundamental reason why I want opPow so badly is in fact not even how often I use it. If that was the case, I'd want a special "writefln" operator as well. The main reason is that exponentiation is such a basic mathematical operation, right up there with addition and multiplication, that it deserves an operator of its own.
Hmmm. Addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division with remainder are all closed over integers. Power isn't. It's not even closed over real numbers. That makes it quite special and quite non-basic.
The more I hear, the more I'm convinced ^^ is just not worth it. And again: I initially liked the idea.
Andrei
