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Re: Calc: `*' binds more strongly than `/'
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Jay Belanger |
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Re: Calc: `*' binds more strongly than `/' |
Date: |
Mon, 23 Apr 2007 10:54:50 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.98 (gnu/linux) |
address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:
...
> I seem to be the only one who have spoken in favour of the current
> precedence rule, but I'm only a casual user of calc, so my opinion
> shouldn't matter here!
You must have missed a few messages; you are by no means the only one
in favor of the current rule.
> Besides, I usually add () to mixtures of / and * anyway (for clarity
> and/or to dictate a specific evaluation order to get maximum precision
> in the result).
Well, I think that's the proper way of doing it; even though there are
rules for interpreting expressions like a*b/c*d, that doesn't mean
writing the expression that way is a good thing to do -- it's just bad
form. I don't think there is any difference between Calc's current
precedence rule and the more standard one for properly written
expressions.
Jay
- Re: Calc: `*' binds more strongly than `/', (continued)
- 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, 2007/04/20
- 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 <=
- Re: Calc: `*' binds more strongly than `/', Christian Schlauer, 2007/04/25
- Re: Calc: `*' binds more strongly than `/', Jay Belanger, 2007/04/25
- Re: Calc: `*' binds more strongly than `/', Stefan Monnier, 2007/04/25
- Re: Calc: `*' binds more strongly than `/', Jay Belanger, 2007/04/26
- Re: Calc: `*' binds more strongly than `/', Stefan Monnier, 2007/04/26
- Re: Calc: `*' binds more strongly than `/', Christian Schlauer, 2007/04/26
- Re: Calc: `*' binds more strongly than `/', Davis Herring, 2007/04/26
- Re: Calc: `*' binds more strongly than `/', Stefan Monnier, 2007/04/26
- Re: Calc: `*' binds more strongly than `/', Luc Teirlinck, 2007/04/26
- Re: Calc: `*' binds more strongly than `/', Christian Schlauer, 2007/04/26