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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 `/' |
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Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:13:42 -0500 |
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address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:
...
> According to the doc, setting calc-multiplication-has-precedence to nil gives
> precedence to / over *.
>
> IIRC, the objection was that people expected equal precedence with
> left to right evaluation (as in C). Giving / precedence over *
> doesn't fix that - it just gives another "wrong" result.
When would it give the "wrong" result?
At any rate, setting calc-multiplication-has-precedence to nil should
probably give equal precedence for aesthetic reasons; that's a trivial
fix that I'll make this afternoon.
Jay