From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: In CVS Emacs, calc-eval gives multiplication higher precidence than division Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:42:18 -0400 Message-ID: References: <878wu3j4k2.fsf@gmail.com> <86wshn3df0.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> <7D0B0AA3-AED7-456B-AAAB-D72CABD19CFB@gmail.com> <48C58D7B.1060707@gmail.com> <86k5dmxtaz.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1220910164 5006 80.91.229.12 (8 Sep 2008 21:42:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 21:42:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Carsten Dominik , "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 08 23:43:39 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KcoWI-00018t-Ty for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:43:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36012 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KcoVJ-0003T2-1l for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:42:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KcoV5-0003Lm-OM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:42:23 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KcoV5-0003LJ-0P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:42:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=42324 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KcoV2-0003Jd-QL; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:42:20 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca ([206.248.154.182]:53072 helo=ironport2-out.teksavvy.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KcoV2-0000Oc-Oj; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:42:20 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AswEAM44xUhFxIqP/2dsb2JhbACBZbRPgWSBBw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.32,360,1217822400"; d="scan'208";a="26537334" Original-Received: from 69-196-138-143.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.196.138.143]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 08 Sep 2008 17:42:19 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id C219D7FDB; Mon, 8 Sep 2008 17:42:18 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <86k5dmxtaz.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> (Randal L. Schwartz's message of "Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:43:16 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:103708 gmane.emacs.bugs:20361 Archived-At: 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