Exponentiation operator precedence

[Bill Frantz]

On 8/25/15 at 8:11 AM, erights at google.com (Mark S. Miller) wrote:

>any solution at this point will confuse many people. These confusions will
>not result in a confusing static rejection but in runtime behavior that
>*sometimes* violates expectations.

It might be worthwhile flagging as errors constructs which cause 
frequent confusion. For example, I have been programming in C 
and C like languages for over 25 years. I still occasionally 
shoot myself in the foot combining bitwise logical operations 
and equality tests. If the language forced me to put int 
parenthesis, I would have been caught at compile time. While I 
try to put them in as a mater of good programming style, 
sometimes I forget.

However, there are probably legacy issues.

Cheers - Bill

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