Pow Expressions - not worth the juice?

[Lance Bachmeier]

On Tuesday, 3 February 2026 at 17:29:44 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote:

> I suppose you could use # for this purpose and make `10 
> #divisible# 2` return true... No ambiguities as # is not used 
> anywhere in D. How can people live with that terrible R syntax 
> is beyond me, but hey - matter of taste I guess! This could 
> allow alternative syntax for some common logic operators (`foo 
> #ge# 2` as alternative to `foo >= 2`)...

R didn't have many alternatives, as it's a numerical language, so 
they already used all the operators for other things. It does 
make it stand out, which is nice for readability once you are 
experienced with the language.