Pow Expressions - not worth the juice?
Sam Potter
sfp at hush.ai
Mon Feb 2 20:23:01 UTC 2026
On Monday, 2 February 2026 at 17:43:45 UTC, 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?
Please no.
Operator overloading for ^^ is a really nice quality of life
improvement for numerical and scientific programming.
All five major numerical programming languages support this:
MATLAB, Python, Fortran, Julia, and R.
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