From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: In CVS Emacs, calc-eval gives multiplication higher precidence than division
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 12:30:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <EC5CD717-02DE-4342-BF35-DA885581BE42@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86wshn3df0.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com>
On Sep 7, 2008, at 10:32 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
>>>>>> "Stefan" == Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>
> Stefan> I think Calc is plainly wrong is giving higher precedence to
> the
> Stefan> multiplication because it's completely non standard. But
> since I don't
> Stefan> use Calc much and since it's been that way for a while, I
> won't fight
> Stefan> for it.
I would fight for the current calc implementation, it is an important
convenience when entering equations. I am relying on it every day.
- Carsten
>
>
> Given the original author's mathematics bias, it made sense (to me, as
> an early tester and contributor) that:
>
> 2 * 3 / 4 * 5
>
> would be parsed as
>
> (2 * 3) / (4 * 5)
>
> in a mathematical sense.
>
> Admittedly, if you're a computer-science guy and not a math guy,
> this might
> seem initially odd.
>
> --
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-08 10:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-07 16:06 In CVS Emacs, calc-eval gives multiplication higher precidence than division Francis Litterio
2008-09-07 16:37 ` Jay Belanger
2008-09-07 18:15 ` Francis Litterio
2008-09-07 19:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-07 20:19 ` bug#920: " Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-07 20:32 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2008-09-07 20:34 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-07 20:38 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2008-09-07 20:42 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-07 20:50 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2008-09-07 21:07 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-08 6:39 ` Ulrich Mueller
2008-09-08 7:07 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-07 21:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-07 23:30 ` Jay Belanger
2008-09-08 0:50 ` Jason Rumney
2008-09-08 1:13 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2008-09-08 3:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-08 8:48 ` Miles Bader
2008-09-08 12:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-08 13:29 ` martin rudalics
2008-09-08 7:26 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-07 21:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-08 10:30 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2008-09-08 11:01 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-09-08 20:33 ` Carsten Dominik
2008-09-08 20:39 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-08 20:43 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2008-09-08 20:53 ` bug#914: " Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-08 20:53 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-08 22:59 ` bug#914: " Jay Belanger
2008-09-08 23:44 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-09 13:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-09 14:36 ` Francis Litterio
2008-09-09 16:26 ` Ulrich Mueller
2008-09-09 16:41 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-30 4:10 ` Leo
2008-09-08 21:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-09 8:11 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-09 13:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-09 17:03 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-09 17:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-08 13:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-07 20:35 ` Jay Belanger
2008-09-07 21:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-07 21:19 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
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