From: "Gerd Möllmann" <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com>
To: Lewis Creary <lewcreary@cs.com>
Cc: 66696@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#66696: 29.1; "A bug in the function debug."
Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2023 07:00:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2msvspwn2.fsf@Pro.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m21qdlupac.fsf_-_@Pro.fritz.box> ("Gerd Möllmann"'s message of "Mon, 23 Oct 2023 21:11:55 +0200")
Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com> writes:
> Lewis Creary <lewcreary@cs.com> writes:
>
> (Please reply to all, so that your mails get to the bug tracker.)
>
>>>> Did you get your parentheses right? The above ')' is the end of the while.
>>
>> I checked, and the extra parenthesis is in my bug report, but not in the code I tried to run. I'd be interested to know if you can reproduce my
>> problem in emacs lisp, with correct parentheses.
>>
>> -- Lew Creary
>
> 1: (while ((and (>= dividend 0) (not stop-sw)))
> 2: (setq dividend (/ dividend 2)
> 3: rmdr-list (append (list (% dividend 2)) rmdr-list) )
>
> You write in the bug report that you start with dividend being 5, and
> you expect the first element of the list to be 1, but it is 0.
>
> When you look at line 2, dividend is divided by 2, which results in 5 /
> 2 = 2, because this is integer division. In line 3, you compute the rest
> of dividend (which is now 2) when divided by 2, which results in 0.
>
> So, this looks correct.
No further reaction expected at this point, so I'm closing this.
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2023-10-23 19:11 ` bug#66696: 29.1; "A bug in the function debug." Gerd Möllmann
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2023-10-23 5:41 ` Lewis Creary via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-10-23 6:57 ` Gerd Möllmann
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