From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: forcing float arithmetic.
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2021 14:51:29 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aa6c84af-5a8c-e52a-ccb3-6a666ca2553c@eastlink.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH+w=7YJSqb+twS1X60LoJgVD95hAnJK3AAL6cA9tcafH2gqUg@mail.gmail.com>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-24 21:52 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
2021-03-24 21:51 ` Ray Andrews [this message]
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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