Pow Expressions - not worth the juice?

Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole richard at cattermole.co.nz
Mon Feb 2 17:48:20 UTC 2026


On 03/02/2026 6:43 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
> https://dlang.org/spec/expression.html#pow_expressions
> 
> They're a bit of an oddball feature in D, in that it's the only feature 
> that relies on Phobos for its implementation.
> 
> Time for it to go?

Absolutely not, the implementation can be moved to based as soon as we 
have something like bundles solving binaries.

This is precisely what based is meant to be able to solve.



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