From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Christian Schlauer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Calc: `*' binds more strongly than `/' Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 23:07:58 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87y7kvxj6p.fsf@arcor.de> <87tzvhcul9.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <863b2z2mma.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> <55350.128.165.123.18.1176926533.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> <86ps5zuwmi.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> <87ps5zi1h2.fsf@truman.edu> <462C8EA2.9090003@gnu.org> <87ejmbdr1x.fsf@truman.edu> <87d51sqinn.fsf@gmail.com> <87647j93tz.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: cs-usenet@arcor.de NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1177621817 11779 80.91.229.12 (26 Apr 2007 21:10:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:10:17 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 26 23:10:16 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 1HhBEF-0000a0-1N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2007 23:10:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HhBK0-0001S7-On for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:16:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HhBJx-0001QS-LZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:16:09 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HhBJv-0001OD-6N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:16:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HhBJv-0001O5-3U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:16:07 -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 1HhBE8-0004dB-8A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:10:08 -0400 Original-Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HhBE2-0004uF-C3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2007 23:10:03 +0200 Original-Received: from finn.gmane.org ([80.91.229.4]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2007 23:10:02 +0200 Original-Received: from cs-usenet by finn.gmane.org with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2007 23:10:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: finn.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.98 (gnu/linux) 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:70206 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >> Exactly; the motivation was for the implicit multiplication, but he >> didn't want to give implicit and explicit multiplication different >> precedences. > > And that's where he went wrong IMNSHO. I agree with Stefan -- it seems that implicit multiplication a.k.a. the `juxtaposition operator' is assumed by default, even when a `*' is given as in `y = 3/2*x'. Calc sort of strips the `*' and calculates `y = 3/(2x)'. I'm glad you found the root of the `feature'!