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From: | Lennart Borgman (gmail) |
Subject: | bug#920: In CVS Emacs, calc-eval gives multiplication higher precidence than division |
Date: | Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:19:04 +0200 |
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Stefan Monnier wrote: > I think Calc is plainly wrong is giving higher precedence to the > multiplication because it's completely non standard. But since I don't > use Calc much and since it's been that way for a while, I won't fight > for it. I think there are good reasons fixing it: - There are enough people out there that are not aware of the precedence rules. Making calc follow them would help remove that confusion. (And I would feel safer when crossing bridges.) - Not following standards makes Emacs harder to use for new users.
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