From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Another question about Calc
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2020 08:39:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <875z7iy476.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwvv9fjlf0c.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> AFAIK LaTeX doesn't calculate at all. I don't see any evidence that it
> treats `A + B / C` as having any kind of internal structure.
AFAIR it has macros to perform calculations, but then the input is not
given as latex formatted formula.
> > Is this behavior expected? Does it make sense in some way?
>
> I think the fact that the syntax is inspired by LaTeX doesn't give
> us much guidance on how precedence should be handled.
>
> So from where I stand, this looks like a bug.
That's what I think, too. I'll create a report.
Thanks,
Michael
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-10 6:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-07 23:08 Two short questions about calc Michael Heerdegen
2020-09-08 2:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-30 23:52 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-10-01 3:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-01 3:41 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-09-08 7:52 ` tomas
2020-09-11 21:13 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-10-09 2:00 ` Another question about Calc (was: Two short questions about calc) Michael Heerdegen
2020-10-09 13:19 ` Another question about Calc Stefan Monnier
2020-10-10 6:39 ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
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