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From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Another question about Calc
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2020 08:39:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <875z7iy476.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwvv9fjlf0c.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> AFAIK LaTeX doesn't calculate at all.  I don't see any evidence that it
> treats `A + B / C` as having any kind of internal structure.

AFAIR it has macros to perform calculations, but then the input is not
given as latex formatted formula.

> > Is this behavior expected?  Does it make sense in some way?
>
> I think the fact that the syntax is inspired by LaTeX doesn't give
> us much guidance on how precedence should be handled.
>
> So from where I stand, this looks like a bug.

That's what I think, too.  I'll create a report.

Thanks,

Michael




      reply	other threads:[~2020-10-10  6:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-07 23:08 Two short questions about calc Michael Heerdegen
2020-09-08  2:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-30 23:52   ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-10-01  3:31     ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-01  3:41       ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-09-08  7:52 ` tomas
2020-09-11 21:13   ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-10-09  2:00 ` Another question about Calc (was: Two short questions about calc) Michael Heerdegen
2020-10-09 13:19   ` Another question about Calc Stefan Monnier
2020-10-10  6:39     ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]

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