On Thu, May 4, 2023, 08:15 Timur Doumler <cpp@timur.audio> wrote:

On 4 May 2023, at 14:27, Edward Catmur <ecatmur@googlemail.com> wrote:
Deprecate ** in one cycle, make it an operator token in the next. Like we did for [,].

Except that this would break A LOT of code. I used to work on a scientific code base where multiple dereferences like `***` were all over the place.

You could still make those work by relaxing maximal munch, like >> in templates. The only thing that would change meaning would be a**b (and a***b etc) , which is poor style anyway.

Cheers,
Timur