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Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2013 13:35:40 +0800
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To: Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Power function as operator
From: tjerk.meesters@gmail.com (Tjerk Meesters)

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Hi Andrea,


On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 3:49 AM, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> wrote:

>
>
> On 22/11/13 16:58, Tjerk Meesters wrote:
>
>>
>> It introduces the pow() function as an operator ** (double asterisk), as
>> can be found in languages such as Python (with perhaps the notable
>> difference that it's right associative there).
>>
>>
> This is great! I like Python's ** operator and having it in PHP would be
> great too. It's a very versatile mathematical operator. With ** you get
> three for the price of one: You can do powers ($x ** 2), you can do square
> roots ($x ** (1/2)) and you can do reciprocals ($x ** -1), though for that
> last one there was already 1 / $x.
>
> I will definitely vote for this proposal if it works and you make an RFC.
>
> I do have one concern, however. It looks like your current pull request
> doesn't make gmp support it. Nikita's (nikic) proposal to add internal
> operator overloading so that the gmp library could support it has been
> merged in. So could you make it overloadable (if it isn't already), and
> make sure gmp supports it?
>

Sure, gmp has gmp_pow(), so I don't think it will be a huge problem to
support this :)


>
> Thanks!
> --
> Andrea Faulds
> http://ajf.me/
>



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