Re: Re: power operator (again)

On 12/19/2013 04:50 PM, Kris Craig wrote: > I believe that, especially for a KISS language like PHP, our top priority > with math operators should be to match arithmetic laws as closely and as > intuitively as possible. The average PHP developer is going to do -3 ** 2 > and expect a result of 9, not -9, and rightly so I think. No, the average PHP developer is going to do $var ** 2 and it will behave exactly as they expect with negative values. Yes, in the very rare case that someone for some reason hardcodes a negative literal there, they are going to have to learn about operator precedence because we really can't have 0 - 3**2 be different from - 3**2. -Rasmus