From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Leo Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: bug#914: In CVS Emacs, calc-eval gives multiplication higher precidence than division Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 05:10:56 +0100 Organization: University of Cambridge Message-ID: References: <878wu3j4k2.fsf@gmail.com> <86wshn3df0.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> <7D0B0AA3-AED7-456B-AAAB-D72CABD19CFB@gmail.com> <48C58D7B.1060707@gmail.com> <86k5dmxtaz.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> <48C590E2.4040804@gmail.com> <87abeijlb9.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1222747884 4036 80.91.229.12 (30 Sep 2008 04:11:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:11:24 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 30 06:12:23 2008 connect(): Connection refused 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 1KkWb0-0005rk-EN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:12:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45181 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KkWZx-00034y-MX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:11:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KkWZr-00034P-ST for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:11:11 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KkWZo-00032j-L1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:11:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=59834 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KkWZo-00032R-0u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:11:08 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:60094 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KkWZn-0004n1-7b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:11:07 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KkWZk-0001tK-LW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:11:04 +0000 Original-Received: from smaug.linux.pwf.cam.ac.uk ([193.60.95.72]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:11:04 +0000 Original-Received: from sdl.web by smaug.linux.pwf.cam.ac.uk with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:11:04 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: smaug.linux.pwf.cam.ac.uk Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACgAAAAoBAMAAAB+0KVeAAAAElBMVEUAAAAAAP+LRRP0pGC+ vr7///+7mT1iAAAAAWJLR0QAiAUdSAAAAAlwSFlzAAALEwAACxMBAJqcGAAAAAd0SU1FB9cBBwMO DhglKe4AAAEsSURBVCjPbZNBboQwDEV/Cd4X9QJRThApmn0XYW+Jyf2v0m+HhqDBgiAe9rcTG7QH w/1Vn2Ar8gBb/ocywSN3qK9T3z4eFDB4eApocBpeBs1RSykoJd8gQcm8pGmHXFso3ajnmsqV0TnY DQkOfXUfN5NwaI7AWTVOyEhcu1aHmdWItHddUVUcUgUBCkitu8V6ditHVOVdqzl2EQ1ZVGTbdK0V 7cqn8vWzoU5Q/bF9Y/Y0cRU1xwkys5dJ+Dt6pBDWifcNQml8Gh2JVmPSoQzo7en0grswkxrUGYJ7 0hSxxAGr7ZMwYcHIzprpi7TENEE1xtiYxixRlCfPBsUUrwHD7uGIwATrbnODJcVrPpVn3hxiGloe m/S+z3CtuzUSMo83N4DPH+F0evwR3P4A2k+75838OKQAAAAASUVORK5CYII= User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:XDaX4CDwqtfQR2vjew9BhuQpUJo= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/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:104248 Archived-At: On 2008-09-09 15:36 +0100, Francis Litterio wrote: > That would be me. Sorry. > > But we should be prepared for more bug reports about this, unless some > means can be devised to alert Calc users about the precedence rule. > > Would it be in appropriate to append a comment to the result when Calc > is used interactively? The current behaviour of calc is correct. All lecturers are using it that way. ÷ has the same precedence as ×, but / has higher precedence over × Cheers, -- .: Leo :. [ sdl.web AT gmail.com ] .: [ GPG Key: 9283AA3F ] :. Use the better alternative -- http://www.openoffice.org/