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 Subject: Re: In CVS Emacs, calc-eval gives multiplication higher precidence than division Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2008 13:50:51 -0700 Message-ID: <86od2z3ck4.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> References: <878wu3j4k2.fsf@gmail.com> <86wshn3df0.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> <48C43ADA.1070001@gmail.com> <86sksb3d53.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> <48C43CB7.4060505@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1220820676 28472 80.91.229.12 (7 Sep 2008 20:51:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 20:51:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 07 22:52:10 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 1KcREo-0000xv-Bf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:52:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35624 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KcRDo-0004fI-Jy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:51:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KcRDi-0004as-B7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:50:54 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KcRDh-0004Y9-Fi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:50:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=44596 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KcRDh-0004Xu-4i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:50:53 -0400 Original-Received: from blue.stonehenge.com ([209.223.236.162]:33828) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KcRDg-0004to-Qa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:50:52 -0400 Original-Received: by blue.stonehenge.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 600021DE374; Sun, 7 Sep 2008 13:50:51 -0700 (PDT) x-mayan-date: Long count = 12.19.15.11.14; tzolkin = 11 Ix; haab = 17 Mol In-Reply-To: <48C43CB7.4060505@gmail.com> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:42:31 +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:103651 Archived-At: >>>>> "Lennart" == Lennart Borgman (gmail) writes: Lennart> More seriously: Where do you get those rules from? The notation Lennart> a b / c d Lennart> does not look like a standard math notation. You sound serious, or perhaps you've only seen math in the computer era. What do you get when you run: a b \div c d through LaTeX? I can't type it in ASCII, but that's what I'm talking about. And in ASCII, we wrote it like "a b / c d". -- 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