Re: Re: internals Digest 23 Nov 2013 16:10:48 -0000 Issue 3139

> I think you are overestimating the market share of the languages supporting > your argument while downplaying those which aren't. I think not. Consider other common web tier: SQL (no operator support) and ActionScript (no operator support). Plus, exclude Java stats that come from the client, since the browsers are making all-out-war on applets now, making them unusable if you do not control user desktops directly. Look, I didn't say languages with a right-associative exponentiation operator have *negligible* market share across the web sphere; most of them have a still-growing community and they power some significant web properties. I'm saying that the feature is not mostly/commonly/largely/usually present in the code that powers the web. I stand by that completely. Nothing inherently *wrong* with PHP being more math-y than most languages in its sphere, but let's call it what is. And let's also not be surprised if somebody ports a codebase from ^ to ** and introduces bugs. -- S.