On 13 January 2012 20:46, Matej Nanut <[email protected]> wrote: > On another note, Octave (and I guess Matlab as well?) use D's precedence > for the pow operator. Bearophile stated earlier that Python does too. Those > seem like quite large audiences. I'm not saying agreeing with the masses > is the choice here, but if a mathematical environment sees it as fit, and > since as far as I'm concerned there's still no reason to prefer one over > the > other, it should be either deprecated or left alone. >
Fair call. I buy this argument. If there is a precedent set by (multiple) other languages towards this precedence (and none against), then so be it. If there were a vote though, I'd vote for it being deprecated on grounds of offering nothing to the language more than confusion.
