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Is the hyperbolic tangent actually going to be named

tahn

or is that a typo?

excellent the math functions!

@elect answering your question from there about infix

pow

-- we had tried it and it turned out to be very error prone since infix fun has lower binding priority than binary operators.

got it

@Ruckus Right, that's just a typo, thanks for spotting it.

@ilya.gorbunov, I'm reading from some comments here (https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2017/08/kotlin-1-2-m2-is-out/) that also some people expected

pow

to be infixed.. may I open a call and see how much votes it gets?

some people expected

pow

to be infixed.. may I open a call and see how much votes it gets?

@elect I don't think it's a matter of votes. While it seems to be a common intuition that

pow

should be infix when it's the only function invoked, as soon as it comes in a more complex expression, like

a pow 2 + b pow 2

all intuition breaks. It is highly unlikely that we'll be changing the order of infix operators and infix functions to tailor that to this case. What can be helpful here is the designated operator for the exponentiation with its own prioirity, like

^

or

**

, but given how reluctantly new symbolic operators are introduced in Kotlin, I wouldn't count on that too.