Don wrote: > You didn't respond to my assertion: even if you _could_ do it, why would > you want to? ** sucks as an exponential operator. I dispute the > contention that ** is a natural choice. It comes from the same language > that brought you IF X .NE. 2
There are too many languages that support ** as an exponentiation operator, that is the reason ** is a likely candidate. Your reasoning seemed to be: - Fortran is bad; - Fortran had ** as its exponentiation operator; - So, ** is bad as an exponentiation operator. I don't care for ** or .NE., really. I don't like * as a multiplication operator, in fact. I'd rather have × as multiplication, ↑ as exponentiation, ∧ as logical and, ∨ as logical or, ¬ as a logical not, = as equality, ≠ as inequality and ← as assignment. I don't know why, but every time I say this, it brings all sorts of controversies and euphoric reactions.
