From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: bug#920: In CVS Emacs, calc-eval gives multiplication higher precidence than division Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:19:04 +0200 Message-ID: <48C43738.7090604@gmail.com> References: <878wu3j4k2.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1220818785 23335 80.91.229.12 (7 Sep 2008 20:19:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 20:19:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jay.p.belanger@gmail.com, bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Francis Litterio , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier , 920@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 07 22:20:39 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 1KcQkN-0002Uq-5z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:20:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58029 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KcQjM-0007WZ-BN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:19:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KcQjG-0007UP-LU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:19:26 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KcQjF-0007Tu-0J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:19:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=34042 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KcQjB-0007Q6-Vg; Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:19:22 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]:45193) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KcQjB-0008AJ-4b; Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:19:21 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-151-87.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.151.87]:64063 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1KcQj5-0002WK-9B; Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:19:16 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080907-0, 2008-09-07), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.151.87 X-ACL-Warn: Too high rate of unknown addresses received from you X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1KcQj5-0002WK-9B. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1KcQj5-0002WK-9B b292116b68e14c4c3d42f4670199c28c X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) 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:103645 gmane.emacs.bugs:20311 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier wrote: > I think Calc is plainly wrong is giving higher precedence to the > multiplication because it's completely non standard. But since I don't > use Calc much and since it's been that way for a while, I won't fight > for it. I think there are good reasons fixing it: - There are enough people out there that are not aware of the precedence rules. Making calc follow them would help remove that confusion. (And I would feel safer when crossing bridges.) - Not following standards makes Emacs harder to use for new users.