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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] rfc: pow-operator
From: swhitemanlistens-software@cypressintegrated.com (Sanford Whiteman)

> | Right-associative  |  Left-associative  |
> +--------------------+--------------------+
> | Perl               |  VB                |
> | Python             |  BASIC             |
> | Tcl                |  Octave            |
> | Freemat            |  Matlab            |
> | Scilab             |  D                 |
> | Sage               |                    |
> | Mathematica        |                    |
> | Haskell            |                    |
> | R                  |                    |
> | Ruby               |                    |
> | Bash               |                    |
> +--------------------+--------------------+

VBScript, VB6, and VB.NET are different languages. At the very least,
you must separate VBScript and VB.NET because they are competitive
technologies in the same space.

ColdFusion is curiously left out of the left-associative department,
since I already brought it up twice.

F# has right-associative **.

> Lanaguages that don't have an exponent operator
> ------------------------------------------------

> C
> C++
> C#
> Java
> Javascript
> ActionScript

+ SQL

-- S.