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C doesn't have double star either (in fact double star means double dereferencing). YMMV or course, but distinction between a low-level language like C, and a

by oytis 7y ago

C doesn't have double star either (in fact double star means double dereferencing). YMMV or course, but distinction between a low-level language like C, and a higher-level one that can support exponentiation, matrix multiplication, thread spawning etc. as a first-class language construct is as clear to me as the difference between shell and non-shell.

aidenn0 7y ago
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe double star as an infix operator would be interpreted as multiplication of a dereference: X ** Y would be parsed as X * (*Y)
- bodyfour 7y ago
  ...but it's unlikely to be accidentally used as an exponent, since you can't dereference a number.
- jandrese 7y ago
  At least in that case the compiler should produce a warning about trying to deference the not-pointer.
derefr 7y ago
C has an “exponentiation operator”, used in literals where you’d expect exponentiation in other languages: <<. (Sure, it’s limited to raising things to powers of 2, but when would you ever need to raise something to a non-power-of-2? :P)
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