From: "Mattias Engdegård" <mattiase@acm.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>, Eythan Weg <eythanweg@gmail.com>,
27765@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#27765: 26.0.50; Calc b% and relch are inconsistent in algebraic and rpn modes
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2021 11:22:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <58A8A2B5-D624-4279-811C-3E652A449BBD@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y28e13j2.fsf@gnus.org>
3 sep. 2021 kl. 10.12 skrev Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>:
> But perhaps others have other opinions; I've added Mattias to the CCs --
> perhaps he has some comments.
I'm afraid I have nothing clever to say about it. It seems understandable that `relch`, or `calcFunc-relch` in Lisp, follows the convention of just returning the value and not concern itself with its presentation. `b%` is an interactive command and therefore may take an interest in how the result is presented to the user. A weak argument, but perhaps it makes some sort of sense.
I have no idea what would break if we changed `calcFunc-relch` to return something like `(calcFunc-percent 25)` instead of 0.25. Maybe it just works.
Regarding the uniform display of percentages in org-mode: spreadsheet applications tend to use formatting of cells or columns when a certain presentation (like percentage or a certain number of decimals) is desirable. On the other hand, some functions in popular spreadsheets do return values adorned with a presentation hint; this is the case for financial functions that compute interest, for example.
Maybe Calc assumes that someone who uses b% is a HP-12C type of person and wants a percentage, while those using algebraic mode get plain values.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-03 9:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-19 12:37 bug#27765: 26.0.50; Calc b% and relch are inconsistent in algebraic and rpn modes Eythan Weg
2017-07-19 12:54 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-07-19 13:49 ` Eythan Weg
2017-07-19 14:10 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-07-19 17:59 ` Eythan Weg
2021-09-03 8:12 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-03 9:22 ` Mattias Engdegård [this message]
2021-09-03 14:56 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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