Merge pull request #506 from zhuomingliang/patch-4

add native int version of pow
rakudo · Aug 28, 2015 · 906ca06 · 906ca06
2 parents 70f6519 + cd9580f
commit 906ca06
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diff --git a/src/core/Int.pm b/src/core/Int.pm
@@ -257,6 +257,10 @@ multi sub infix:<**>(Int:D \a, Int:D \b) {
            !! 1 / nqp::pow_I(nqp::decont(a), nqp::decont(-b), Num, Int)
 }
 
+multi sub infix:<**>(int $a, int $b) returns int {
+    nqp::pow_i($a, $b)
+}
+
 multi sub infix:<lcm>(Int:D \a, Int:D \b) returns Int {
     nqp::lcm_I(nqp::decont(a), nqp::decont(b), Int);
 }