Yes, it might just have happened, since every programmer would choose
the most efficient operation. However, if you want to use the language
as an algebra, in which you can convert expressions into other
equivalent expressions, it is a complication which might not be
considered necessary. /Erling
Den 2017-09-07 kl. 20:46, skrev Xiao-Yong Jin:
On Sep 7, 2017, at 1:40 PM, Erling Hellenäs <erl...@erlinghellenas.se> wrote:
It is non-intuitive that (*: n) does not give the same result as (n^2). Maybe
once this was decided because of performance reasons.
Just like, in C, I always do x*x, instead of pow(x,2).
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