Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:70375 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 19354 invoked from network); 25 Nov 2013 10:31:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 25 Nov 2013 10:31:45 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=mike.php.net@gmail.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=mike.php.net@gmail.com; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain gmail.com designates 209.85.217.177 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: mike.php.net@gmail.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 209.85.217.177 mail-lb0-f177.google.com Received: from [209.85.217.177] ([209.85.217.177:33544] helo=mail-lb0-f177.google.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 22/53-34377-01723925 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 2013 05:31:45 -0500 Received: by mail-lb0-f177.google.com with SMTP id w7so2959441lbi.36 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 2013 02:31:41 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type; bh=VSEcYJzZM/z7hZ7zc6SPRSwVfGmdhvTjacIRorp+nLc=; b=tcUXHWACzr9GhXZdrhcRG5/TN5TMlpRdpoMVdMKUyE86S4XTDKPLBBvEUpW22E2zOW s0wIApYYWWuE3sBj7/DdoSXM5cCj6iH43ps/N0DQaifA9+GiG13O9wXZrqeKycGHwObQ hZc//htCSgTDNHKIdvh+SmzdtRii5wB9c1WMPcx+OLxSfnXlYw49+EayWmdtEQLFXp7L PSrDyNUr0apuolfaHycqZDRi9byLipwb+YeTOoaRAJMMxWBGzbAKRaCJgDMb+Kow9Rpe OsfjX0cgwo+sNjMyHvT0+BG4zfBzdr+0+fsQG7fw16YatwF7hMr7aD3J5yyxPZSWT3zx tp/A== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.152.184.35 with SMTP id er3mr5435514lac.23.1385375501733; Mon, 25 Nov 2013 02:31:41 -0800 (PST) Sender: mike.php.net@gmail.com Received: by 10.114.197.35 with HTTP; Mon, 25 Nov 2013 02:31:41 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <1072587228.20131123222202@cypressintegrated.com> Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 11:31:41 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: aTEvc_qwT0YgIoDut-5xEGyRjPs Message-ID: To: Sanford Whiteman Cc: Sherif Ramadan Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] rfc: pow-operator From: mike@php.net (Michael Wallner) On 25 November 2013 11:26, Michael Wallner wrote: > On 24 November 2013 04:22, Sanford Whiteman > 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 If you mean the SQL standard, do you have a reference (link)? Thanks, Mike -- Regards, Mike