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logic is that the precedence in the language matches the<BR>precedence of a
written equation.<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR>
<DIV>But the operator looks nothing like the written equation... nothing at
all like the written equation.</DIV>
<DIV>Perhaps D could support the unicode characters '<FONT
face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><FONT size=4>²</FONT>' '<FONT
size=4>³</FONT>' or '<FONT size=4>ª</FONT>' as kinda handy operators. But to
me, the operator looks NOTHING like maths notation, and it would
never </FONT><SPAN
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style="FONT-FAMILY: arial,helvetica,sans-serif">occurred to me that the
operator was trying to emulate maths notation (and by extension, its
precedence rules).</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I'd be interested to see a
poll, and how many people see it one way or the other...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Beware... your statement has awoken an "Ancient Forum
Lurker"! ;)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>1. Google -5^2, result: -(5^2) = -25</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>2. Start ancient TI graphing calculator(which by the way
has a special unary (-) minus operator).</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>-5^2 = -25</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>-5<STRONG>²</STRONG> = -25</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT size=3>The list can be extended by a great
number of examples of prior convention for the pow operator(especially in
mathemathical software)... not just Python...</FONT> <FONT size=3>I have
actually never even seen a valid counter example... changing this would greatly
confuse people with mathematical background.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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