Dick Hendrickson wrote: > > Richard Maine wrote: > > > > Michael Milgram writes: > > > > > The "**" symbol is the only case I am aware of in which operators can appear > > > side-by-side. > > > > I'll not comment at all on the rest of this thread. But on the above > > point only, note that there are others. There is certainly the case > > of "//". And although although the result is a delimitter instead of > ^^ ^^ > We even have adjacent "operators" in English!!! Hmmm, I get the impression this is a projective operator: P^2 = P. [ But then, I'm not a native speaker and all that ] -- Toon Moene - mailto:[log in to unmask] - phoneto: +31 346 214290 Saturnushof 14, 3738 XG Maartensdijk, The Netherlands GNU Fortran 77: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/g77_news.html GNU Fortran 95: http://g95.sourceforge.net/ (under construction) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%