GNU bug report logs - #937
In CVS Emacs, calc-eval gives multiplication higher precidence than division

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>

Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 21:50:04 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 914, 915, 918, 920, 921, 923, 924, 928, 929, 930, 932, 933, 934, 941, 944

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: merlyn <at> stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
Cc: "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>,
        bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org, emacs-devel <at> gnu.org,
        Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#937: In CVS Emacs, calc-eval gives multiplication higher  precidence  than division
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:42:18 -0400

Lennart> Of course I can see that the behaviour you want saves you a lot of key
Lennart> strokes. My question is really about the default value. You can easily
Lennart> change that, of course. The question is really if you prefer the old
Lennart> default and in that case what arguments you want to present for that.

> There's no need to change the longstanding defaults, because it would break
> things.  You already have a knob you can tweak if you think that "2 a / 3 b"
> should multiply by b, rather than divide by it.  That's a personal choice.

Nobody in this thread has said that "2 a / 3 b" should multiply by b.
What I (and others) have said is that "2 * a / 3 * b" should multiply by b.


        Stefan
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