From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jay Belanger Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Calc: `*' binds more strongly than `/' Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:54:08 -0500 Message-ID: <87fy4mzf3z.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87y7kvxj6p.fsf@arcor.de> <87odlrkn74.fsf@truman.edu> <87tzvhcul9.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <863b2z2mma.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> <55350.128.165.123.18.1176926533.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> <86ps5zuwmi.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> <87ps5zi1h2.fsf@truman.edu> <87abuu8xaz.fsf@gmail.com> <877ipy8vhd.fsf@kfs-lx.testafd.dk> <200706201729.l5KHTG24023360@jane.dms.auburn.edu> Reply-To: jay.p.belanger@gmail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182362062 28310 80.91.229.12 (20 Jun 2007 17:54:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:54:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jay.p.belanger@gmail.com To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 20 19:54:20 2007 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 1I14Nm-00040L-NP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 19:54:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I14Nm-0000Zp-52 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 13:54:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I14Ni-0000Zk-5A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 13:54:14 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I14Ne-0000ZX-QW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 13:54:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I14Ne-0000ZU-IU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 13:54:10 -0400 Original-Received: from uranium.truman.edu ([150.243.160.94]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I14Ne-000433-5G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 13:54:10 -0400 Original-Received: from uranium.truman.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id 6C8AA57F45; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:54:09 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (vh215402.truman.edu [150.243.64.20]) by uranium.truman.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 534E75C1B2; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:54:08 -0500 (CDT) In-Reply-To: <200706201729.l5KHTG24023360@jane.dms.auburn.edu> (Luc Teirlinck's message of "Wed\, 20 Jun 2007 12\:29\:16 -0500 \(CDT\)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:73460 Archived-At: Luc Teirlinck writes: ... > I guess I must be missing something obvious, but given > left-associativity, can you give me any example where giving / > precedence over * gives a different result than giving them equal > precedence I can't offhand; that's what I asked about. However, people might be more comfortable seeing "equal precedence" in the documentation, and it can change the display some: if division has precedence, "a*b/c" will display as "(a b)/c"; if they have equal precedence, "a*b/c" will display as "a b/c". Jay