From: Jay Belanger <jay.p.belanger@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Cc: jay.p.belanger@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Calc: `*' binds more strongly than `/'
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:13:42 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878xaetupl.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877ipy8vhd.fsf@kfs-lx.testafd.dk> (Kim F. Storm's message of "Wed\, 20 Jun 2007 18\:02\:38 +0200")
storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) writes:
...
> According to the doc, setting calc-multiplication-has-precedence to nil gives
> precedence to / over *.
>
> IIRC, the objection was that people expected equal precedence with
> left to right evaluation (as in C). Giving / precedence over *
> doesn't fix that - it just gives another "wrong" result.
When would it give the "wrong" result?
At any rate, setting calc-multiplication-has-precedence to nil should
probably give equal precedence for aesthetic reasons; that's a trivial
fix that I'll make this afternoon.
Jay
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-20 17:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-14 11:57 Calc: `*' binds more strongly than `/' Christian Schlauer
2007-04-14 15:09 ` Jay Belanger
2007-04-15 19:21 ` Chong Yidong
2007-04-15 20:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-04-17 12:47 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2007-04-17 18:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-04-18 8:44 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-04-18 19:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-04-18 20:02 ` Davis Herring
2007-04-18 20:16 ` David Kastrup
2007-04-18 21:43 ` Davis Herring
2007-04-19 16:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-04-20 11:13 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2007-04-20 13:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-04-20 14:07 ` Jay Belanger
2007-04-22 1:31 ` Miles Bader
2007-04-22 10:19 ` Christian Schlauer
2007-04-22 10:23 ` Christian Schlauer
2007-04-22 19:47 ` Jay Belanger
2007-04-23 10:46 ` Jason Rumney
2007-04-23 13:03 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-04-23 15:54 ` Jay Belanger
2007-04-25 19:56 ` Christian Schlauer
2007-04-25 20:54 ` Jay Belanger
2007-04-26 3:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-04-26 4:06 ` Jay Belanger
2007-04-26 14:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-04-26 21:07 ` Christian Schlauer
2007-04-26 15:07 ` Davis Herring
2007-04-26 16:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-04-26 18:32 ` Luc Teirlinck
2007-04-26 21:29 ` Christian Schlauer
2007-04-26 23:17 ` Luc Teirlinck
2007-04-26 21:07 ` Christian Schlauer
2007-04-27 1:27 ` Jay Belanger
2007-04-26 17:47 ` Davis Herring
2007-06-20 15:23 ` Jay Belanger
2007-06-20 16:02 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-06-20 17:13 ` Jay Belanger [this message]
2007-06-20 17:29 ` Luc Teirlinck
2007-06-20 17:54 ` Jay Belanger
2007-06-20 19:14 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-06-20 19:28 ` Luc Teirlinck
2007-06-20 20:18 ` Jay Belanger
2007-04-17 18:54 ` Jay Belanger
2007-04-18 21:55 ` Christian Schlauer
2007-04-19 2:58 ` Daniel Brockman
2007-04-22 10:27 ` Christian Schlauer
2007-04-26 16:00 ` Daniel Brockman
2007-04-19 15:16 ` Drew Adams
2007-04-19 17:05 ` David Kastrup
2007-04-19 17:18 ` Drew Adams
2007-04-19 17:33 ` David Kastrup
2007-04-16 15:38 ` Richard Stallman
2007-04-17 12:47 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2007-04-18 21:29 ` Christian Schlauer
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