From c3967af8e9de0088c9a1e6894e82085431e51fe6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Davies <iamed2@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2017 14:20:22 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Deprecate ^(x, p::Integer)

---
 base/deprecated.jl | 2 ++
 base/intfuncs.jl   | 1 -
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/base/deprecated.jl b/base/deprecated.jl
index aff647f193df4e..586d1fb3e6c1ca 100644
--- a/base/deprecated.jl
+++ b/base/deprecated.jl
@@ -1687,6 +1687,8 @@ end
 # issue #5148, PR #23259
 # warning for `const` on locals should be changed to an error in julia-syntax.scm
 
+@deprecate ^(x, p::Integer) power_by_squaring(x,p)
+
 # END 0.7 deprecations
 
 # BEGIN 1.0 deprecations
diff --git a/base/intfuncs.jl b/base/intfuncs.jl
index da4fa67d9f22a7..997d937594f0cc 100644
--- a/base/intfuncs.jl
+++ b/base/intfuncs.jl
@@ -202,7 +202,6 @@ end
 
 ^(x::T, p::T) where {T<:Integer} = power_by_squaring(x,p)
 ^(x::Number, p::Integer)  = power_by_squaring(x,p)
-^(x, p::Integer)          = power_by_squaring(x,p)
 
 # x^p for any literal integer p is lowered to Base.literal_pow(^, x, Val(p))
 # to enable compile-time optimizations specialized to p.