Re: rfc: pow-operator

For a comparative list of languages that implement the exponent operator as either right-associative or left-associative I've gathered the following, non-exhaustive list (see quasi-bibliography below)... | Right-associative | Left-associative | +--------------------+--------------------+ | Perl | VB | | Python | BASIC | | Tcl | Octave | | Freemat | Matlab | | Scilab | D | | Sage | | | Mathematica | | | Haskell | | | R | | | Ruby | | | Bash | | +--------------------+--------------------+ Lanaguages that don't have an exponent operator ------------------------------------------------ C C++ C# Java Javascript ActionScript ---- Languages that don't have exponent operators seem to have routes from C-style languages where at the time no machine instruction existed for the operation and so instead a library routine was used. Certainly PHP would benefit from an exponent operator here and I don't think going against the trend of languages making it right-associative in order to make power-towering easier for the user is necessarily a bad idea. Just my 0.00000002 cents! --- Qausi-bibliography --- https://plus.google.com/u/0/104277466162910953762/posts/e3jCt51VfmD http://perldoc.perl.org/perlop.html http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/274.html http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/getting-started.html