BS> On 19 May 96 Justin Marquez said to Derek Benner...
 JM> would be much if the (**) OPERATOR were built-in (like in FORTRAN).
 BS> The reason for your displeasure is buried in history.  Pascal's creator,
 BS> Nicholas Wirth, never intended Pascal to be a production language.  It
 BS> was written purely as an academic teaching language.  Hence he
 BS> deliberately left out lots of Fortranic things like Power (a.k.a. **).
    Seriously, DELPHI is a long way past what Nicholas Wirth created!  If 
there is a valid reason for NOT adding a new operator (such as your surmisal 
that it may slow down the compilation speed drastically), I can live with 
that as an answer.  (I have used Borland's PASCALs for many years to develop 
commercial engineering-type programs and I use a POWER() funtion frequently, 
so obviously I am living with it!)
Justin Marquez
Artichoke BBS, Houston, TX
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