From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Christian Johansson <christian@cvj.se>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: I want to add a package to GNU ELPA: infix-notation-calculator
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2021 19:28:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv7dgjvf1e.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <90971c32-68c7-f59e-c426-ef0ecc5af0d0@cvj.se> (Christian Johansson's message of "Tue, 17 Aug 2021 09:32:37 +0200")
> Sure, I think calc and calculator are more full-focused calculators that
> require a learning-curve, this plugin is more of an quick ad-hoc calculator
> that calculates values like (infix notation)
[...]
Thanks, but I meant to add that to the README or the `Commentary:`.
Also I was thinking more about the documentation on which operations are
supported. [ IIUC you only support the four basic arithmetic
operations, with standard precedence rules, plus parentheses for
grouping, right? ]
Also, I was wondering if you had considered implementing the parser with
the following approach:
- read the line with (read-from-string (concat "(" STRING ")"))
- massage the resulting sexp to implement the desired infix syntax.
You could even do the massaging via a macro, where
(infix 2 + 3 * 5)
(infix 2 + (3 * 5))
(infix (2 + ((3) * 5)))
all macroexpand to
(+ 2 (* 3 5))
so your syntax could be used inside code as well.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-17 23:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-16 21:14 I want to add a package to GNU ELPA: infix-notation-calculator Christian Johansson
2021-08-16 22:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-08-17 7:32 ` Christian Johansson
2021-08-17 11:01 ` Eric S Fraga
2021-08-17 11:20 ` Christian Johansson
2021-08-17 15:21 ` Eric S Fraga
2021-08-17 15:27 ` Christian Johansson
2021-08-17 15:54 ` Eric S Fraga
2021-08-17 16:55 ` Christian Johansson
2021-08-17 23:28 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2021-08-18 6:40 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-08-18 9:03 ` Christian Johansson
2021-08-18 10:47 ` Eric S Fraga
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