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Article #2293Re: Why no ** operator in Modula2?
From: Ben Stuyts
Date: Fri, 31 May 1991 03:50
Date: Fri, 31 May 1991 03:50
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dww@math.fu-berlin.de (Debora Weber-Wulff) writes: DW> The question came up in class today: Why is there no ** or ^ DW> (x to the nth power) operator in standard Modula2? DW> To make you start your own private module collection of goodies? DW> Because it is machine dependant??? Probably because it is the spirit of Wirth's languages that they are easy to parse and it is easy to generate code for the underlying machine architecture. And as there are usually no 'power' type instructions, Wirth did not add it to the language but put it in the MathLib library instead. Best regards, Ben -- uucp: uunet!m2xenix!puddle!2!281!202.6!Ben.Stuyts Internet: Ben.Stuyts@p6.f202.n281.z2.fidonet.org
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!tektronix!percy!m2xenix!puddle!p6.f202.n281.z2.fidonet.org!Ben.Stuyts From: Ben.Stuyts@p6.f202.n281.z2.fidonet.org (Ben Stuyts) Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2 Subject: Re: Why no ** operator in Modula2? Message-ID: <1302.284A5A7F@puddle.fidonet.org> Date: 31 May 91 03:50:40 GMT Sender: ufgate@puddle.fidonet.org (newsout1.26) Organization: FidoNet node 2:281/202.6 - ST Quick BBS Haarle, Haarlem Holland Lines: 19