Pow Expressions - not worth the juice?
H. S. Teoh
hsteoh at qfbox.info
Tue Feb 3 15:33:07 UTC 2026
On Mon, Feb 02, 2026 at 09:43:45AM -0800, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d 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?
No, please don't. Being able to write x^^y instead of ugliness like
pow(x,y) that you have to in other languages is a very nice QoL feature
in D. Why are we trying to make D harder to use, instead of easier?
T
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