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Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 16:21:36 -0800
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: power operator (again)
From: rmwscbt@gmail.com (George Wilson)

Disregard, I was thinking too hard. Seems all of the important points
have already been made.

On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Rowan Collins <rowan.collins@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
> [IMSoP]
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