Re: In CVS Emacs, calc-eval gives multiplication higher precidence than division

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
>>>>>> "Stefan" == Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> Stefan> I think Calc is plainly wrong is giving higher precedence to the
> Stefan> multiplication because it's completely non standard.  But since I 
> don't
> Stefan> use Calc much and since it's been that way for a while, I won't fight
> Stefan> for it.
> 
> Given the original author's mathematics bias, it made sense (to me, as
> an early tester and contributor) that:
> 
>    2 * 3 / 4 * 5
> 
> would be parsed as
> 
>    (2 * 3) / (4 * 5)
> 
> in a mathematical sense.
> 
> Admittedly, if you're a computer-science guy and not a math guy, this might
> seem initially odd.

It is really odd if you happen to know math.