From -7767050027946606361 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,9a5d91576ea14293 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: f78e5,42ca30940288d269 X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1992-03-01 20:21:03 PST Xref: sparky comp.lang.c++:5455 comp.std.c++:254 Path: sparky!uunet!decwrl!mips!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!penguin!hopper From: hopper@penguin.micro.umn.edu (Eric Hopper) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: X to the Y power, how? Message-ID: <1992Mar1.185816.379@news2.cis.umn.edu> Date: 1 Mar 92 18:58:16 GMT Article-I.D.: news2.1992Mar1.185816.379 References: <50175@hydra.gatech.EDU> <1992Feb27.135250.25403@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Feb27.223558.276@rice.edu> <22292@alice.att.com> <22305@alice.att.com> <1992Mar1.021321.17871@rice.edu> Sender: news@news2.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration) Organization: University of Minnesota Lines: 19 Nntp-Posting-Host: penguin.micro.umn.edu In <1992Mar1.021321.17871@rice.edu> dougm@rice.edu (Doug Moore) writes: .... Lots of stuf deleted >P. S. - >a@b loses because gdb already uses @ for something very useful. I >vote for a~b. ~ is already used as the 1's complement operator. You could conceivably set it up to have a different definition as a binary operator though, like * I would still be a little leary of this. It isn't likely to break anything, but it still looks funy to a C person like me. Have fun, hopper@donald.cs.umn.edu (or hopper@mermaid.micro.umn.edu until March) _ /) * I went insane to * / ') ______ ____ o // __. __ o ____. . _ * preserve my sanity * (__/ / / / <_/ / <_<__//__(_/|_/ (_<_(_) (_/_/_)_ * for later. * /> * -- Ford Prefect *