Pow Expressions - not worth the juice?

[jmh530]

On Monday, 2 February 2026 at 17:48:20 UTC, Richard (Rikki) 
Andrew Cattermole wrote:
> 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.

based? bundles solving binaries? Not sure on what these are...