From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: In CVS Emacs, calc-eval gives multiplication higher precidence than division Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:43:16 -0700 Message-ID: <86k5dmxtaz.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> References: <878wu3j4k2.fsf@gmail.com> <86wshn3df0.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> <7D0B0AA3-AED7-456B-AAAB-D72CABD19CFB@gmail.com> <48C58D7B.1060707@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1220906617 22425 80.91.229.12 (8 Sep 2008 20:43:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 20:43:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, Carsten Dominik To: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 08 22:44:31 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Kcnb3-0000kG-FL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:44:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48420 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kcna3-0007hg-LM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:43:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KcnZx-0007f8-Ts for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:43:21 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KcnZw-0007ea-IO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:43:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=38242 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KcnZv-0007eA-D5; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:43:19 -0400 Original-Received: from blue.stonehenge.com ([209.223.236.162]:35616) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KcnZv-00079F-4m; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:43:19 -0400 Original-Received: by blue.stonehenge.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id C445E1DE580; Mon, 8 Sep 2008 13:43:16 -0700 (PDT) x-mayan-date: Long count = 12.19.15.11.15; tzolkin = 12 Men; haab = 18 Mol In-Reply-To: <48C58D7B.1060707@gmail.com> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:39:23 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.4 (berkeley-unix) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: OpenBSD 3.0-3.9 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:103704 gmane.emacs.bugs:20353 Archived-At: >>>>> "Lennart" == Lennart Borgman (gmail) writes: Lennart> Of course I can see that the behaviour you want saves you a lot of key Lennart> strokes. My question is really about the default value. You can easily Lennart> change that, of course. The question is really if you prefer the old Lennart> default and in that case what arguments you want to present for that. There's no need to change the longstanding defaults, because it would break things. You already have a knob you can tweak if you think that "2 a / 3 b" should multiply by b, rather than divide by it. That's a personal choice. Frankly, I'd never touch that knob, because it looks to me like it should divide by b. And I think most mathemeticians would agree, and that's the target for that part of Calc. Stop thinking computer science. Think *math* notation. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/ for Smalltalk and Seaside discussion