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Re: std::pow implementation

Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
Let's the programmer decide. It is *his* choice. He has control do
decide.

I'm with Gabriel on this one. I've been doing C++ since it was "C with Classes," and it has always been clear to me that Stroustrup trusts the programmer over the compiler.

If you can't trust the programmer, the programmer shouldn't be writing code in C or (especially) C++.

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Scott Robert Ladd
Coyote Gulch Productions (http://www.coyotegulch.com)
Software Invention for High-Performance Computing

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