Re: Re: power operator (again)

On 12/19/2013 05:11 PM, George Wilson wrote: > Sorry, that was meant to goto the list. > > On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 2:09 PM, George Wilson <rmwscbt@gmail.com> wrote: >> Maybe this is because my educational background is in Mathematics but >> personally, I would tend to assume first (with just about any >> language- unless I had reason to believe otherwise) that - blah is >> equivalent to - (blah). FWIW, - 3 ** 2 === (-3) ** 2 would seem very >> counter intuitive to me and I would probably gripe to myself about an >> odd choice of operation syntax. This particularly makes sense given >> Rasmus's example. The function >> >> function blah($argument){ >> return 3 - $blah ** 2 >> } >> >> Should not by default reverse the sign of $blah as the suggested >> syntax might suggest. Again, just my thought. Yeah, the 0 - 3 vs. - 3 example was actually not very accurate. You are right, the - reverses the sign, so - 3 is more accurately described as (-1) * 3. But that doesn't really change the larger point. -Rasmus