Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> Alexandre Vassalotti schrieb:
>> C doesn't have an exponentiation operator. You use the pow() function,
>> instead:
>
> Right. Then Scott's claim ("Because it is consistent with C's precedence
> rules.") can't be true - from C precedence, it does not follow that **
> must have higher precedence than unary -.
>
I believe the confusion with my claim is that I thought the oddity in
question was that -3/2 != 0-3/2, but I believe you took the other half
about exponentiation as the oddity in question that -3**2 == -(3**2). My
original comment was to say that unary - was higher precedence than
division because of C's ordering. With respect to the original question,
then my answer was poor as I ignored the exponentiation part. Since we
tacked this on, my answer was to be an implicit zen answer of "because
it makes the most sense."
Sorry for the added noise.
-Scott
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