Exponentiation operator precedence

[Mark S. Miller]

I don't get it. The conflict between

* the history of ** in other languages,
* the general pattern that unary binds tighter than binary

seems unresolvable. By the first bullet, -2 ** 2 would be -4. By the
second, it would be 4. Either answer will surprise too many programmers. By
contrast, no one is confused by either -Math.pow(2, 2) or Math.pow(-2, 2).





On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 9:00 AM, Jason Orendorff <jason.orendorff at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 5:43 PM, Mark S. Miller <erights at google.com>
> wrote:
> > When the costs were minor, it was ok that the benefits were minor.
>
> The costs will probably still be minor if we just let Rick look at it
> and revise the proposal.
>
> What has happened here is
> - upon implementing the feature, we noticed a problem
> - we thought through it together and found possible solutions
> - we found other languages already use these solutions
>
> This seems like less turbulence than average for a new ES feature,
> even a minor one. Considering dropping the feature seems premature.
>
> -j
>



-- 
    Cheers,
    --MarkM
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