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From: Joakim Hove <hove@ift.uib.no>
Subject: Re: Evaluation of "standard" style math expresssions.
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 13:53:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bjju0trrg80.fsf@termo1.fi.uib.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20040921114408.GA2296@matijek.plusseven.com


Alex Polite <m4@polite.se> writes:


> But I'd like to be able to eval expression where the notation is the
> kind you learn in school (eg (17 + 42))
>
> How do I do it?

Well,

you just can't (I think) evaluate (17 + 42) as a lisp expression. What
you of course could do was write a lisp function which parsed such
expressions, and then evaluated them, but I guess that is not what you
want.


Joakim

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-21 11:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-21 11:48 Evaluation of "standard" style math expresssions Alex Polite
2004-09-21 11:53 ` Joakim Hove [this message]
2004-09-21 12:07 ` Marco Parrone
2004-09-21 12:31   ` Alex Polite
2004-09-21 12:10 ` Albert Reiner
2004-09-21 15:29   ` Stefan Monnier
2004-09-21 15:35     ` Jay Belanger
2004-09-21 17:50     ` Albert Reiner
2004-09-21 20:22       ` Stefan Monnier

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