On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 05:58:55 -0400, bearophile <[email protected]> wrote: > > Don: > > >Raising to a float power is really a niche feature.< > > Used it as x^^0.5 to perform the square root is not a niche feature, square > roots are common enough. > And sqrt is an intrinsic, it doesn't need all std.math.
I think I've only ever used a square root once, and that was to get the distance between two points. I'm not sure that square roots are common enough in general code to justify an implicit import (especially if we think of D in its context as a systems programming language).
