On Sun, Oct 9, 2016 at 6:25 AM, Sebastian Berg <sebast...@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
> For what its worth, I still feel it is probably the only real option to > go with error, changing to float may have weird effects. Which does not > mean it is impossible, I admit, though I would like some data on how > downstream would handle it. Also would we need an int power? The fpower > seems more straight forward/common pattern. > If errors turned out annoying in some cases, a seterr might be > plausible too (as well as a deprecation). > I agree with Sebastian and Nathaniel. I don't think we can deviating from the existing behavior (int ** int -> int) without breaking lots of existing code, and if we did, yes, we would need a new integer power function. I think it's better to preserve the existing behavior when it gives sensible results, and error when it doesn't. Adding another function float_power for the case that is currently broken seems like the right way to go.
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