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: In CVS Emacs, calc-eval gives multiplication higher precidence than division Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2008 13:38:16 -0700 Message-ID: <86sksb3d53.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> References: <878wu3j4k2.fsf@gmail.com> <86wshn3df0.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> <48C43ADA.1070001@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1220819979 26617 80.91.229.12 (7 Sep 2008 20:39:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 20:39:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 07 22:40:34 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 1KcR3g-00071h-PV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:40:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35946 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KcR2g-00052G-EV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:39:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KcR1a-0004jR-3S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:38:22 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KcR1Y-0004iT-A4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:38:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=47445 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KcR1Y-0004iJ-1t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:38:20 -0400 Original-Received: from blue.stonehenge.com ([209.223.236.162]:18868) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KcR1X-0003A3-GD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:38:19 -0400 Original-Received: by blue.stonehenge.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 962881DE575; Sun, 7 Sep 2008 13:38:16 -0700 (PDT) x-mayan-date: Long count = 12.19.15.11.14; tzolkin = 11 Ix; haab = 17 Mol In-Reply-To: <48C43ADA.1070001@gmail.com> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:34:34 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.4 (berkeley-unix) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: OpenBSD 3.0-3.9 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:103649 Archived-At: >>>>> "Lennart" == Lennart Borgman (gmail) writes: >> Admittedly, if you're a computer-science guy and not a math guy, this might >> seem initially odd. Lennart> It is really odd if you happen to know math. Really? You parse a b / c d as ((a * b) / c) * d ? That's not what I was taught in algebra. Have the rules changed? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/ for Smalltalk and Seaside discussion