Pow operator precedence

[Manu]

On 13 January 2012 14:48, bearophile <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com> wrote:

> This is the third time I see people trip on power operator precedence:
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=7268
>
> Some people expect this:
> (-10 ^^ 2)
> To be 100 instead of -100
> (Note: Python here uses the same operator precedences.)
>
> Do you think it's worth (and possible) to help D programmers avoid this
> mistake in their code?
>

I would certainly have made this mistake if I tried it. And knowing this
information will not cause me to do it properly, it will simply make me
question my code, and become very suspicious every time I ever use the
operator (ie. I will never understand the proper precedence, I don't think
it makes sense).
I'm fairly amazed it's not the other way around... what's the logic behind
this?
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