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From: Mike Williams
Date: 13 Nov 2002 21:34:19
Message: <Qr$j1CAksw09EwtL@econym.demon.co.uk>

Wasn't it gilroy who wrote:
>I was wondering why the "raise to a power" operator was removed from
>POV-Ray.  (IIRC it was in earlier versions, though perhaps not 3.1.)

It was only ever in patched versions (e.g. MegaPov) and some 3.5 beta
versions. There was a little bit of disagreement on the beta groups
about operator precedence which somehow failed to be resolved
successfully, and ended up with the operator being pulled. With the
"pow" function the precedence problem doesn't arise.

-- 
Mike Williams
Gentleman of Leisure

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