std::pow implementation

[Scott Robert Ladd]

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++.

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