Hi Brandon, Being new to Haskell, I take it (^) and (^^) would be the preferred exponential "operator." When (how,where,why) would one use (**)?
Michael --- On Mon, 10/26/09, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH <[email protected]> wrote: From: Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Fortran mixed mode arithmetic expressions -> Haskell To: "michael rice" <[email protected]> Cc: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <[email protected]>, [email protected], "Daniel Fischer" <[email protected]> Date: Monday, October 26, 2009, 12:16 PM On Oct 26, 2009, at 01:00 , michael rice wrote:I looked for an exponential operator and grabbed the first one I found. In the Prelude (**) is under the heading Methods, while (^^) is under the heading Numeric Functions. Reasoning? It's correct if perhaps not ideal for someone who doesn't think in terms of Haskell. (**) is a member of a typeclass, whereas (^^) is an independent function; you are expected to check that the typeclass is appropriate for what you're doing. -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] [email protected] administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] [email protected] and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH
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