Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=13756&edit=1
ID: 13756
Updated by: ni...@php.net
Reported by: san...@php.net
Summary: exponential ** operator
Status: Closed
Type: Feature/Change Request
-Package: Feature/Change Request
+Package: *General Issues
Operating System: n/a
PHP Version: 4.0.6
-Assigned To:
+Assigned To: nikic
Block user comment: N
Private report: N
New Comment:
@tom Exponentiation is an operation that is used too little (in PHP) to warrant
adding an extra operator for it. Doing a random guess, I'd think it's used even
less than the bitwise operators (and those are used quite rarely in PHP...)
Previous Comments:
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[2013-02-28 11:17:23] tom at r dot je
Indeed! Seems very despotic just to say "No. Deal with it" with no further
discussion or explanation why.
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[2012-07-08 23:31:23] hello at wesalvaro dot com
le why not?
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[2002-04-27 16:17:03] j...@php.net
not going to happen. just suck it up and use pow().
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[2001-10-19 18:51:47] jer...@php.net
I proposed that earlier (along with ^^) [ZendEnginge ML, june 27th & july 3rd].
Anyway, I think it should be added, there is simply no power operator now, and
pow() is both a bit bugly and overloaded (both ^^ and ** at the same time).
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[2001-10-19 11:24:28] hholz...@php.net
** is Pascal, not C
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