Re: mathlib

[Ralph Hempel <rhempel@...>]

Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:

> Note that the "official" alternative would not be to implement your
> own functions, but simply to use an external library, such as mathx.
> With that library you will have not only sinh, cosh, and tanh, but
> also their inverses plus 32 other useful mathematical functions not
> present in mathlib.

If you are suggesting something along the lines of "keep math as-is, maybe 
deprecate pow()", and add a loadable mathx library, then +1

Ralph