the problem is, that there are two popular use cases of this expression. One is plain old power expression and the other is writing scientific notations of numbers. I thing we should stick with the first use case, because at least for literals we already have scientific notation.
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 4:48 PM, bearophile <[email protected]> wrote: > This is the third time I see people trip on power operator precedence: > http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=7268 > > Some people expect this: > (-10 ^^ 2) > To be 100 instead of -100 > (Note: Python here uses the same operator precedences.) > > Do you think it's worth (and possible) to help D programmers avoid this > mistake in their code? > > Bye, > bearophile -- Bye, Gor Gyolchanyan.
