The operator ^ for exponentiation or for excluding: how not to confuse them?

7 months ago by CodyIT to c/golang

In some languages, the ′^′ operator can be used for exponentiation, but in other popular development stacks, it operates as the exclusive OR (XOR) operator. Today, we′ll discuss how this confusion...

Gophers, hey. Confusing ^ with exponentiation instead of XOR in Go seems like a pretty easy mistake to make. The bug itself is simple, but it still shows up even in some well-known projects with large codebases.

How often does this happen in your code?

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