Robert Hill wrote:
> As recently as the 1980s IBM (and vendors of plug-compatible equipment,
> as clones were called then) were selling, for use with their mainframes,
> EBCDIC terminals whose keyboard lacked such characters as
>
> \ ~ ^ [ ] { }
Hello,
I have to admit this discussion is getting out of hand and forces me to
press the [Del] button too often. First, I can see no possible harm in
letting ^ denote exponentiation, but keeping the old ** as well.
In the mean time, use of any good preprocessing system, such as the
literate
programming tool FWEB (http://w3.pppl.gov/%7ekrommes/fweb_toc.html) will
let
one use ^ instead of ** in a Fortran-sensitive manner.
Thanks,
Aleksandar
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