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From: | Stefan Monnier |
Subject: | Re: In CVS Emacs, calc-eval gives multiplication higher precidence than division |
Date: | Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:42:18 -0400 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
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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