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From: "Roland Winkler" <winkler@gnu.org>
To: jay.p.belanger@gmail.com
Cc: 13580@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13580: 24.2.92; regression in calc-convert-units
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2013 14:24:07 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20756.3431.129502.895875@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87liazq4su.fsf@gmail.com>

On Thu Feb 7 2013 Jay Belanger wrote:
> convert:
>  3 ft/in
> This is simply 36.  There are no units here, so Calc asks for the old
> units.  Since someone might wonder why Calc is asking for units, there
> is a message pointing out the expression doesn't have any.

Please recognize the difference between dimensionless and unitless.
3 ft/in is dimensionless, but it has the unit "ft/in". 
As calc-convert-units is about converting units and (I suppose)
nothing else, there is no need to ask the user here. If the user
entered "kg" as the old unit of "3 ft / in" this makes no sense.

Please, trust the user she knows what she wants. The new behavior is
a regression.

Roland





  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-02-07 20:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-28 22:24 bug#13580: 24.2.92; regression in calc-convert-units Roland Winkler
2013-01-29  1:10 ` Jay Belanger
2013-01-29  2:55 ` Jay Belanger
2013-01-30 14:20 ` Jay Belanger
2013-02-07 17:38   ` Roland Winkler
2013-02-07 19:53     ` Jay Belanger
2013-02-07 20:11       ` Roland Winkler
2013-02-07 20:18         ` Jay Belanger
2013-02-07 20:23           ` Roland Winkler
2013-02-07 20:33             ` Jay Belanger
2013-02-07 20:33             ` Jay Belanger
2013-02-07 20:40               ` Glenn Morris
2013-02-08  1:29                 ` Jay Belanger
2013-02-08  1:51                   ` Glenn Morris
2013-02-07 20:24       ` Roland Winkler [this message]
2013-02-07 20:39         ` Jay Belanger
2013-02-07 20:55           ` Roland Winkler
2013-02-07 21:11             ` Jay Belanger
2013-02-08  8:33               ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-02-08 14:30                 ` Jay Belanger
2013-02-08 14:49                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-02-08 14:56                     ` Jay Belanger
2013-02-09  4:57                     ` Roland Winkler
2013-02-09 15:08                       ` Jay Belanger
2013-02-09 16:14                         ` Roland Winkler
2013-02-09 23:49                           ` Jay Belanger
2013-02-10  0:19                             ` Roland Winkler
2013-02-10  0:41                               ` Jay Belanger
2013-02-08 15:41                   ` Jay Belanger
     [not found]             ` <87d2wb3k4e.fsf@gmail.com>
2013-02-07 21:19               ` Roland Winkler
2013-02-08  8:21             ` Eli Zaretskii

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