🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1992Oct14.225725.16486@microsoft.com> jimad@microsoft.com (Jim Adcock) writes:
>In article <23663@alice.att.com> bs@alice.att.com (Bjarne Stroustrup) writes:
>>How frequent is a**p anyway? (has anyone got any data?) How confusing...
>
>I just ran a quick measurement on a convenient sample of 85,000 lines of
>C and C++ code.  Based on this sample "**" appears on average about once
>per every 200 lines of code.  This is a pretty high occurance.  For comparison
>"^" [XOR] appears on average once per 3000 lines of code!  Based on this
>measure I'd much rather see "^^" used for exponentiation, since the potential
>for confusion would seem to be much much lower.  Too bad "^" was misused to
>mean XOR in the first place or the problem would be solved!

I find it hard to believe that there are that many instances of
multiplication following indirect referencing.  How many of those
instances of ** are of the form

/*
**  Commentary
*/
?

					Yours truly,
					Robert Corbett