From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joakim Hove Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Evaluation of "standard" style math expresssions. Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 13:53:03 +0200 Organization: University of Bergen Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20040921114408.GA2296@matijek.plusseven.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1095767667 7534 80.91.229.6 (21 Sep 2004 11:54:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 11:54:27 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 21 13:54:21 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C9jDr-0008DU-00 for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 13:54:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C9jJm-0000tz-DE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 08:00:22 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsmi-us.news.garr.it!newsmi-eu.news.garr.it!NewsITBone-GARR!feed.news.tiscali.de!uninett.no!nntp.uib.no!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: termo1.fi.uib.no Original-X-Trace: toralf.uib.no 1095767574 28431 129.177.39.206 (21 Sep 2004 11:52:54 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@uib.no Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 21 Sep 2004 11:52:54 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:dP1i0U387ujD3GWB4U7u3di7TFY= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:125432 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:20788 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:20788 Alex Polite 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 -- Joakim Hove hove AT ift uib no +47 (55 5)8 27 90 http://www.ift.uib.no/~hove/