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From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: belanger@truman.edu
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Calc: `*' binds more strongly than `/'
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 10:31:37 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87slat42km.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ps5zi1h2.fsf@truman.edu> (Jay Belanger's message of "Fri\, 20 Apr 2007 09\:07\:05 -0500")

Jay Belanger <belanger@truman.edu> writes:
> While several people have said the current behavior is convenient for
> interactive use, I would hope (and expect) that there aren't any
> calc-scripts depending on this behavior.  But it'd be nice to know for
> sure. 

In any case, while there are clearly some people which know about and
like the current behavior -- so any change would unfortunately cause
_some_ pain -- I suspect even more people get screwed up by calc's
deviation from standard practice (and often probably don't realize it
until they detect later than their calculation turned out wrong for some
reason).

-Miles

-- 
"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that
 you do it."  Mahatma Gandhi

  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-22  1:31 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 [this message]
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
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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