On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 10:51 PM Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca> wrote:

> On 2021-03-24 10:56 a.m., Bart Schaefer wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> So it's procedural rather than deliberate/designed.  It's not hard to
> cope with
> still I'd vote to correct it -- one of those things where a look ahead
> could
> sorta say that if the lvalue is float, then all subsequent arithmetic
> will be
> float.  Or not worth the trouble, it's easy enough to work around.
>

The behavior of zsh in this regard is consistent with C and all languages
inspired by it (C++, Java, C# and many, many others). This is really
working as intended.

Roman.