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To: zsh-users@zsh.org References: From: Ray Andrews Message-id: Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2021 14:51:29 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.8.0 MIME-version: 1.0 In-reply-to: Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit Content-language: en-US X-Seq: 26592 Archived-At: X-Loop: zsh-users@zsh.org Errors-To: zsh-users-owner@zsh.org Precedence: list Precedence: bulk Sender: zsh-users-request@zsh.org X-no-archive: yes List-Id: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: Archived-At: On 2021-03-24 10:56 a.m., Bart Schaefer wrote: > On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 10:20 AM Ray Andrews 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.