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Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 11:26:21 +0100
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To: Sanford Whiteman <swhitemanlistens-software@cypressintegrated.com>
Cc: Sherif Ramadan <internals@lists.php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] rfc: pow-operator
From: mike@php.net (Michael Wallner)

On 24 November 2013 04:22, Sanford Whiteman
<swhitemanlistens-software@cypressintegrated.com> wrote:

>> Lanaguages that don't have an exponent operator
>> ------------------------------------------------
>
>> C
>> C++
>> C#
>> Java
>> Javascript
>> ActionScript
>
> + SQL

You can repeat that as often as you like, but it does not become more
true because of that. Maybe the SQL dialect or database engine you are
using does not support an exponent operator, that does not mean there
ain't any:

mike=# select substring(version(), 0, 18) v, 2 ^ 3 ^ 2 e;
-[ RECORD 1 ]--------
v | PostgreSQL 9.2.4
e | 64


-- 
Regards,
Mike