In article <3cfb131e@news.povray.org> , "Slime" <slm### [at] slimelandcom> wrote:

> We had a discussion about this earlier, but it's so old that I wanted to
> post this in a new thread so it wouldn't be overlooked; I hope that's ok.
>
> We talked about precedence issues with the ^ operator. I accept whatever the
> POV-Ray team chooses to do with that issue (i assume they'll leave it as
> is); however, I was just looking in "6.1.3.3  Float Operators" and noticed
> that it's not in there anywhere. There's a whole paragraph in there about
> how POV-Ray treats some operator precedences differently than most other
> languages do.
>
> Anyway, I think it would be a good idea to add the ^ operator to this
> section of the docs, and at the same time give a quick explanation of the
> reason for its lower precedence than the unary - operator, maybe also
> mentioning the unexpected behavior I ran across.

This operator has been removed in RC 6.

    Thorsten

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