GNU bug report logs - #10554
24.0.92; No units specified (dimensionless quantities in Emacs Calc)

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Roland Winkler" <winkler <at> gnu.org>

Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 05:27:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.0.92

Done: Jay Belanger <jay.p.belanger <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #35 received at 10554 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jay Belanger <jay.p.belanger <at> gmail.com>
To: "Roland Winkler" <winkler <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 10554 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, jay.p.belanger <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#10554: 24.0.92;
	No units specified (dimensionless quantities in Emacs Calc)
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:54:32 -0600

>> But what /should/ happen?  Would you like an error signaled?  Otherwise,
>> the current behavior is the most reasonable.
>
> I would, indeed, consider it quite OK if an error was signaled. Say,
> if there was an option calc-throw-error-if-units-mismatch, I'd bind
> it to t.

Having such an option shouldn't be too hard to take care of, after 24.1
comes out.  By default, though, the current behavior shouldn't change,
and so the option should have default value nil.

Jay
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