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Article #2299Re: Why no ** operator in Modula2?
From: Warwick Allison
Date: Tue, 04 Jun 1991 23:37
Date: Tue, 04 Jun 1991 23:37
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>note: Wirth: a compiler has to be as small as possible (see also Oberon).
>for my opinion this is a good solution for compiler writers and it is easy to
>port such a compiler (in comparision to e.g. a ADA-compiler). decentralism
>(hm?)
Agreed. Except we cannot define our own "**", we have to use one of...
y:=IntegerToRealPower(A,x)
y:=RealToIntegerPower(A,x)
B:=IntegerToIntegerPower(A,x)
y:=RealToRealPower(A,x)
:-)
Warwick.
Actually, I take that back (-:, I think I would prefer to use those functions.
Bye, I've got a module to write...
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!brolga!uqcspe!cs.uq.oz.au!warwick From: warwick@cs.uq.oz.au (Warwick Allison) Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2 Subject: Re: Why no ** operator in Modula2? Message-ID: <1771@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> Date: 4 Jun 91 23:37:26 GMT References: <1413.284BAAE1@puddle.fidonet.org> Sender: news@cs.uq.oz.au Reply-To: warwick@cs.uq.oz.au Lines: 23