Re: Calculations

At 2:36 PM +0200 7/6/06, Jochem Maas wrote: >tedd wrote: >> At 11:27 AM +0300 6/28/06, Robin Vickery wrote: >>> On 28/06/06, tedd <tedd@sperling.com> wrote: >>>> At 2:30 PM -0400 6/27/06, Kristen G. Thorson wrote: >>>>> >>>>> http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.operators.bitwise.php >>>>> >>>> I wonder why that's true for php when it's common to use ^ in many other >>>> languages >>>> for powers? > >> Perl: ^ is the bitwise xor operator >>> Python: ^ is the bitwise xor operator >>> C: ^ is the bitwise xor operator >>> Java: ^ is the bitwise xor operator >>> ... >>> >>> -robin >> >> Oh well, that settles it then. :-) > >I guess the chinese-straw-hat operator has had it's meaning >changed by general consensus since the days when you were >programming with rocks ;-) That was an old thread -- are you finally getting to it? You're falling behind in your reading. :-) tedd PS: ^ was used for other things other than a bitwise xor operator as portions of this thread has shown. I just don't remember them -- of course, I don't remember what I had for breakfast yesterday either. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com