Re: rfc: pow-operator

On Nov 23, 2013 5:31 PM, "Kris Craig" <kris.craig@gmail.com> wrote: > > We should be following standard Order of Operations here. As such, the > option of no associativity should be included. Furthermore, there needs to > be a voting option regarding how to deal with even exponents of negative > bases; i.e. treat "-3 ^ 2" as "-3 ^ 2 == 9" or as "-(3 ^ 2) == > -9". A more appropriate example would be to say should we treat -3 ^ 2 as (-3) ^ 2 == 9 or as -(3 ^ 2) == -9 > Without those options, my vote would be a firm No. > > --Kris > > > On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 9:43 AM, Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> wrote: > > > On Sat, 23 Nov 2013, Tjerk Meesters wrote: > > > > > Hi guys, > > > > > > I'm done drafting the RFC for the exponential operator: > > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/pow-operator > > > > > > Since this is a language feature, voting will only start in two weeks > > from > > > now. > > > > Something that I missed in there, are you thinking of adding: > > > > **= > > > > in there too, just like we have: > > > > $a += 5; > > > > cheers, > > Derick > > > > -- > > http://derickrethans.nl | > > http://xdebug.org > > Like Xdebug? Consider a donation: > > http://xdebug.org/donate.php > > twitter: @derickr and @xdebug > > Posted with an email client that doesn't mangle email: alpine > > > > -- > > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > >