From: "stomar (Marcus Stollsteimer)" Date: 2012-11-17T02:29:40+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:49446] [ruby-trunk - Feature #7322] Add a new operator name #>< for bit-wise "exclusive or" Issue #7322 has been updated by stomar (Marcus Stollsteimer). @trans There is only one type of power operator in physics. You would have to use parentheses: (10 m)^3 (10 meters * 10 meters * 10 meters) 10 m^3 (10 cubic meters) And I think you should also have to use them in the code. From a physicist's point of view, I find the idea of distinguishing between different kinds of power operators strange at best, probably confusing to the user and maybe even dangerous. ---------------------------------------- Feature #7322: Add a new operator name #>< for bit-wise "exclusive or" https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/7322#change-32983 Author: alexeymuranov (Alexey Muranov) Status: Rejected Priority: Low Assignee: Category: Target version: =begin I propose to alias (({Fixnum#^})) and (({Bignum#^})), which stand for bit-wise "exclusive or", with a new operator name (({#><})). Is it necessary to go along with C, Python, and Mathematica? According to Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclusive_or#Alternative_symbols ), the "^" symbol is not used for XOR outside of programming context. Here are some examples of mathematical notation: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/XOR.html (there are also examples in the Wikipedia article). The Unicode symbol is "���". If eventually (({Fixnum#^})) as XOR is deprecated, this will liberate this symbol for other uses, for example for all kinds of exponential notations (for me, "a^n" usually means "the n-th power of a"). =end -- http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/