From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org,
Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>,
"Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: In CVS Emacs, calc-eval gives multiplication higher precidence than division
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:42:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvzlmiiadd.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86k5dmxtaz.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> (Randal L. Schwartz's message of "Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:43:16 -0700")
Lennart> Of course I can see that the behaviour you want saves you a lot of key
Lennart> strokes. My question is really about the default value. You can easily
Lennart> change that, of course. The question is really if you prefer the old
Lennart> default and in that case what arguments you want to present for that.
> There's no need to change the longstanding defaults, because it would break
> things. You already have a knob you can tweak if you think that "2 a / 3 b"
> should multiply by b, rather than divide by it. That's a personal choice.
Nobody in this thread has said that "2 a / 3 b" should multiply by b.
What I (and others) have said is that "2 * a / 3 * b" should multiply by b.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-08 21:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-07 16:06 In CVS Emacs, calc-eval gives multiplication higher precidence than division Francis Litterio
2008-09-07 16:37 ` Jay Belanger
2008-09-07 18:15 ` Francis Litterio
2008-09-07 19:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-07 20:19 ` bug#920: " Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-07 20:32 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2008-09-08 10:30 ` Carsten Dominik
2008-09-08 11:01 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-09-08 20:33 ` Carsten Dominik
2008-09-08 20:39 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-08 20:43 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2008-09-08 20:53 ` bug#914: " Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-08 21:42 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2008-09-09 8:11 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-09 13:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-08 13:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-07 20:35 ` Jay Belanger
2008-09-07 21:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-07 21:19 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
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