[julia-users] Re: -1^2

[Nils Gudat]

As John said, this is not about handling the exponential, but about 
handling the minus sign.
But this isn't some sort of Julia quirk:

MATLAB: 
>> -1^2
ans =
    -1

Python:
>> -1**2
-1

R: 

> -1^2[1] -1


Seems pretty consistent to me!