Should ^^ (opPow) be left- or right-associative?
bearophile
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Sat Dec 5 09:57:34 PST 2009
KennyTM~:
> But the mathematical convention is a^b^c == a^(b^c).
> Languages which the power operator is right-associative (3^3^3==7e12):
> - Python, Haskell, Ruby, Perl, Mathematica, Bash.
Doing things as in mathematical convention, Mathematica and Python sounds better.
This was just the release V.0.1 of the built-in pow, it needs several improvements :-)
Bye,
bearophile
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