On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 05:36:21PM -0700, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > On 5/9/2016 2:32 PM, Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > >On 5/9/16, Stefan Koch via Digitalmars-d-announce > ><digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote: > >>I was shocked to discover that the PowExpression actually depends on > >>phobos! > > > >I seem to remember having to implement diagnostics in DMD asking for > >the user to import std.math. I'm fairly confident it had something to > >do with power expressions. > > > >Yah, it's a mess. :) > > > > The pow stuff should just be done in dmd without reference to the > library.
+1. It makes little sense for a language built-in operator to require std.math, when the whole point behind the druntime/phobos split is to make it possible for implementations *not* to implement Phobos. T -- Some days you win; most days you lose.
