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From: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
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bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
[...]
> But it's OK to justify 'pow' for exponentiation?

"pow" is a library function, not an operator.  If C had an exponentation
operator, it would probably have been represented using punctuation
characters, perhaps "**".  (Adding a "**" operator now would break some
existing code; `x**y` currently means `x * (*y)`.  "^^" might work, but
there doesn't seem to be much demand for an exponentation operator
anyway.)

(Yes, sizeof and _Alignof are operators that use keywords rather than
punctuation symbols.  There's no hard rule that operators must be
punctuation, just a general trend.)

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
Working, but not speaking, for Medtronic
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */