# New Ticket Created by "Carl Mäsak" # Please include the string: [perl #81428] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=81428 >
<masak> I just got "Can't exponentiate a Duration" in real-world code. could someone explain to me why we have Durations? <masak> I was calculating the standard deviation of a bunch of Durations. that calculation contains an exponantiation. <masak> I know what I'm doing. Rakudo thought it knew better, it didn't. <masonkramer> I'm not even sure that your failure was to spec <masak> I'm pretty sure it isn't. <masonkramer> "Durations allow additive operations with other durations, _and allow any numeric operation with a number as the other argument_" * masak submits rakudobug <masonkramer> So it wouldn't have been an issue for you if it had been to spec <masak> masonkramer: thank you.
