From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
Cc: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: forcing float arithmetic.
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2021 10:56:32 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH+w=7YJSqb+twS1X60LoJgVD95hAnJK3AAL6cA9tcafH2gqUg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f09863a2-0af9-dbff-08b9-6f595cd7e164@eastlink.ca>
On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 10:20 AM Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca> wrote:
>
> Why are answers dumbed down like that?
Every subexpression is considered independently, so float conversion
doesn't take place until the assignment is evaluated. The type of the
lvalue does not propagate across every rvalue.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-24 17:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-24 17:19 Ray Andrews
2021-03-24 17:56 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2021-03-24 21:51 ` Ray Andrews
2021-03-24 21:54 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2021-03-24 21:59 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-03-25 1:12 ` Ray Andrews
2021-03-25 1:36 ` Daniel Shahaf
2021-03-25 1:45 ` Ray Andrews
2021-03-25 2:37 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-03-25 3:22 ` Ray Andrews
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