In article <web.3dd2f802cd39b0a38042f4fa0@news.povray.org>,
 "gilroy" <nomail@nomail> 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.) 

Your memory is faulty, it was never added. 3.1 is the version that came 
before 3.5, nothing in between, and neither supported it. You are 
probably thinking of MegaPOV.


> With ever more functioning becoming common in POV-Ray, the lack of a simple
> power notation seems, to me, to be a real step backward in readability.  Is
> there a reason it's gone?

Basically, somebody made a big stink about the precedence not being what 
they wanted it to be, and it got pulled before 3.5 was publicly released.

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