From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Calc: `*' binds more strongly than `/' Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 04:13:25 -0700 Organization: Stonehenge Consulting Services; Portland, Oregon, USA Message-ID: <86ps5zuwmi.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> References: <87y7kvxj6p.fsf@arcor.de> <87odlrkn74.fsf@truman.edu> <87tzvhcul9.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <863b2z2mma.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> <55350.128.165.123.18.1176926533.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1177067645 22936 80.91.229.12 (20 Apr 2007 11:14:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:14:05 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 20 13:13:55 2007 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 1Her3p-0002EB-Kb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:13:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Her8r-0004VC-RN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Apr 2007 07:19:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Her8o-0004S3-3a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Apr 2007 07:19:02 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Her8m-0004Pf-DQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Apr 2007 07:19:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Her8m-0004Pc-A2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Apr 2007 07:19:00 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Her3i-00023I-4n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Apr 2007 07:13:46 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Her3V-0007v8-KZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:13:33 +0200 Original-Received: from blue.stonehenge.com ([209.223.236.162]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:13:33 +0200 Original-Received: from merlyn by blue.stonehenge.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:13:33 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: blue.stonehenge.com x-mayan-date: Long count = 12.19.14.4.8; tzolkin = 12 Lamat; haab = 16 Pop User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.4 (berkeley-unix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:BTTE8zOcEWMhMfeJLMi/jIPts98= X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:69680 Archived-At: >>>>> "Stefan" == Stefan Monnier writes: Stefan> In any case, I still haven't heard any concrete reason why the Stefan> non-standard behavior of calc is preferred to the more common Stefan> behavior. "Backward compatibility" is not a concrete reason? Calc has been around for a *very* long time. Do not needlessly break it. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!