I am a C++ programmer and yet I also failed to catch on that ^ in the ticket was xor not pow until I read the comments. All it took was being a bit sleepy. A

I am a C++ programmer and yet I also failed to catch on that ^ in the ticket was xor not pow until I read the comments. All it took was being a bit sleepy. A rather unfortunate operator choice on the part of C: open to confusion and precluded adding ^ as an exponentiation operator to the language.