Re: [pure-lang-users] Proposed syntax changes

[Eddie R. <er...@bm...>]

On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 08:43 -0500, Eddie Rucker wrote:
> IMHO, the following rules should be added for pow:
> 
> pow n::int (x%y)        |
> pow n::bigint (x%y)     |
> pow n::double (x%y)     = pow n (x/y);
> 
> So that 
>  > pow 16 (1%2);
>  4.0
> 
> instead of the current
>  > pow 16 (1%2);
>  pow 16 (1L%2L)
> 

Forgot to mention the reason:
 > 15^(-1%2);
 3.87298334620742
 > pow 15 (1%2);
 pow 15 (1L%2L)

should be consistent.

e.r.