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Christopher James Huff wrote:
>In article <3dd3cb3c$1[at]news.povray.org>, "Slime" <slm### [at] slimeland com>
>wrote:
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>> Besides, I would think that since we're adding ^ as a new operator, we could
>> give it whatever precedence we wanted, and it just seems more logical to me
>> to make it work the way we've been taught it should work than to allow the
>> 2^-3 syntax just for convenience.
>
>Not for convenience, for self consistency. There isn't an existing rule,
>so the one that was most logical and consistent was chosen.
How about just requiring that the hat
operator should always be preceeded
by a pair of parantesis.
Like this: ( )^
E.g.: (3)^-3 or (-4)^2
Tor Olav
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