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Re: Calc: `*' binds more strongly than `/'
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Calc: `*' binds more strongly than `/' |
Date: |
Fri, 20 Apr 2007 09:40:18 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.97 (gnu/linux) |
Stefan> In any case, I still haven't heard any concrete reason why the
Stefan> non-standard behavior of calc is preferred to the more common
Stefan> behavior.
> "Backward compatibility" is not a concrete reason?
Well, of course, there's this one. But I was looking for one that justifies
choosing the current behavior in the first place.
> Calc has been around for a *very* long time. Do not needlessly break it.
I cannot judge that. I just know that big warnings in the doc about
unexpected behavior should usually better be fixed by changing the behavior
(when possible). If there are too many existing calc-scripts that would be
broken by such a change, fine, but if this only mostly affects interactive
use, then changing it would make a lot of sense.
Stefan
- Re: Calc: `*' binds more strongly than `/', (continued)
- Re: Calc: `*' binds more strongly than `/', Stefan Monnier, 2007/04/15
- Re: Calc: `*' binds more strongly than `/', Randal L. Schwartz, 2007/04/17
- Re: Calc: `*' binds more strongly than `/', Stefan Monnier, 2007/04/17
- Re: Calc: `*' binds more strongly than `/', Kim F. Storm, 2007/04/18
- Re: Calc: `*' binds more strongly than `/', Stefan Monnier, 2007/04/18
- Re: Calc: `*' binds more strongly than `/', Davis Herring, 2007/04/18
- Re: Calc: `*' binds more strongly than `/', David Kastrup, 2007/04/18
- Re: Calc: `*' binds more strongly than `/', Davis Herring, 2007/04/18
- Re: Calc: `*' binds more strongly than `/', Stefan Monnier, 2007/04/19
- Re: Calc: `*' binds more strongly than `/', Randal L. Schwartz, 2007/04/20
- Re: Calc: `*' binds more strongly than `/',
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: Calc: `*' binds more strongly than `/', Jay Belanger, 2007/04/20
- Re: Calc: `*' binds more strongly than `/', Miles Bader, 2007/04/21
- Re: Calc: `*' binds more strongly than `/', Christian Schlauer, 2007/04/22
- Re: Calc: `*' binds more strongly than `/', Christian Schlauer, 2007/04/22
- Re: Calc: `*' binds more strongly than `/', Jay Belanger, 2007/04/22
- Re: Calc: `*' binds more strongly than `/', Jason Rumney, 2007/04/23
- Re: Calc: `*' binds more strongly than `/', Kim F. Storm, 2007/04/23
- Re: Calc: `*' binds more strongly than `/', Jay Belanger, 2007/04/23
- Re: Calc: `*' binds more strongly than `/', Christian Schlauer, 2007/04/25
- Re: Calc: `*' binds more strongly than `/', Jay Belanger, 2007/04/25