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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: power operator (again)
From: rowan.collins@gmail.com (Rowan Collins)

On 19/12/2013 23:00, George Wilson wrote:
> Well and lets reverse the argument a bit.

Reverse which argument? I think your reply may have been threaded to the 
wrong message, and it gives no quotes for context.

> Which syntax would be easier to read:
>
> 1 - - 3**3 or 1 - (-3)**3

Frankly, both make my eyes bleed, and seem very unlikely in practice (at 
least one of those would be a variable, or why would you not just 
hard-code the result?)

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Rowan Collins
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