On 2/11/2010 11:23 AM, Jussi Piitulainen wrote:
Robert Kern writes:
On 2010-02-11 06:31 AM, Shashwat Anand wrote:
There is a little issue here that '>>> -.1 ** .1' should give you
error message. That is it.
No, fractional powers of negative numbers are perfectly valid
mathematically. The result is a complex number. In Python 3 (what
the OP is using), this has been implemented, but not in Python 2.6.
Perhaps it should raise a MisleadingSpacingError at compile time.
You forgot the smiley ;-).
> The error message could recommend - .1**.1, or better -(.1 ** .1).
The compiler would never see the difference between -.1 ** .1 and the
first and probably no difference with the second either.
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