opPow, opDollar

[Walter Bright]

Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> In order for everyone to air an informed opinion, a related question is: 
> will loop fusion be allowed with function calls?
> 
> Loop fusion currently only works with operators, and adding ^^ would allow:
> 
> a[] = b[] ^^ 3;
> 
> But with pow you can't do that:
> 
> a[] = pow(b[], 3);
> 
> 
> Andrei
> 
> P.S. FWIW, I'm ambivalent on the issue; if functions were allowed for 
> automatic loop fusion that would tilt my opinion in disfavor of ^^, and 
> if not, it would tilt my opinion in favor of ^^.


I don't think this is a valid argument for making pow() an operator, 
because what about sin()? cos()? It's all the same issue, and they all 
can't be operators.