Power operator for PB 3.80

Psychophanta · Post by **Psychophanta** » Thu Oct 02, 2003 3:02 pm

Please, what about a power operator "^" instead of pow() function just now you are working for 3.80 version?
If you add ^ for power arithmetic operations you can remove pow() function.
Keep in mind too that just an operator is better for readability...

Thanx Fred!

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blueznl · Post by **blueznl** » Thu Oct 02, 2003 4:23 pm

i second that! i was quite surprised i couldn't use 2^2 etc.

ehm, and plz for floats as well as integers and even constants...

for example:

a.l = 2 ^ 2
a.f = 2 ^ 2

#DTAREADY = 2 ^ 2

but then again, perhaps i ask too much...

Psychophanta · Post by **Psychophanta** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 10:36 pm

More good reasons to deprecate Pow:
- Pow is not a typical BASICs word. Few BASIC dialects use it instead ^
- PB syntax philosophy supports keywords as entire names, Pow is an incomplete word.
- There is an inconsitence with other operators. In order to have coherence there should replace '*' by Mul(), '/' by Div(), '+' by Sum(), etc.

rsts · Post by **rsts** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 10:49 pm

Mul and div are complete words?

You request seems to contradict itself - replace pow with ^ but replace * with div.

Kaeru Gaman · Post by **Kaeru Gaman** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 11:03 pm

I understand what he means:
If power stays Pow(), devide should be changed to Div() etc..

... me, I don't care ...

in fact, Pow() is on a Level like Sqr() or Log().
not an operation on the level like division or multiplication.
it's not even a bijective transformation, like division and multiplication are.
so, it's not that big argument I think.