std::pow implementation

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) writes:

| > I do insist on the fact that it is not just an "as-if" rule.
| 
| You can insist all you like, but every rule in a standard of this kind
| is an as-if rule.

It is an "as-if" rule only because that is the way it is described in
standardese.   In the C++ community, we do care about history and
documented behaviour.   You won't change that, just because you want
C++ inline to have a less language specific meaning.

-- Gaby