Confusing error when raising an integer to a negative power #15860
Description
Describe the bug
When an integer is raised by a negative power an operator overflow error is thrown, which I think is off. It should probably be a value error instead.
How to reproduce
~> 10 ** -1
Error: nu::shell::operator_overflow
× Operator overflow.
╭─[entry #90:1:4]
1 │ 10 ** -1
· ─┬
· ╰── pow operation overflowed
╰────
help: Consider using floating point values for increased range by promoting operand
with 'into float'. Note: float has reduced precision!
~> 10 ** -1.0 # works fine
0.1
~> 10.0 ** -1 # also works fine
0.1Expected behavior
I expected Nushell to throw a value error. Probably "unsupported input" like math ln does when its passed a negative number.
Configuration
| key | value |
|---|---|
| version | 0.104.1 |
| major | 0 |
| minor | 104 |
| patch | 1 |
| branch | |
| commit_hash | |
| build_os | linux-x86_64 |
| build_target | x86_64-alpine-linux-musl |
| rust_version | rustc 1.87.0 (17067e9ac 2025-05-09) (Alpine Linux 1.87.0-r0) |
| cargo_version | cargo 1.87.0 (99624be96 2025-05-06) (Alpine Linux 1.87.0-r0) |
| build_time | 2025-05-26 22:14:00 +00:00 |
| build_rust_channel | release |
| allocator | standard |
| features | default, sqlite, trash |
| installed_plugins | endecode 0.104.0, template 0.104.0 |