in reply to Strange Logic in Power of arithmetic

I want to be in the pageant! Perl 6.c on Darwin.

moo@cow[1102]~>perl6 > print("line 1: ", -4**1.5, "\n"); print("line 2: ", (-4)**1.5, "\n"); print("line 3: ", 1/(-4)**1.5, "\n"); print("line 4: ", 3 + (-4)**1.5, "\n"); > line 1: -8 > line 2: NaN > line 3: NaN > line 4: NaN