From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Math expression evaluation error?
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2015 17:51:03 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <150110175103.ZM21764@torch.brasslantern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54B1A5EC.2080202@eastlink.ca>
On Jan 10, 2:21pm, Ray Andrews wrote:
}
} BTW, just Googling, I see that this issue has come up time and again.
} Our original poster on this thread is not the first person to be got by
} this gotcha. Why not make the issue go away, once and for all?
Because there is such a thing as standardized behavior across shells,
and while it is fine to add or extend features, egregiously changing
the behavior of the common subset is generally a bad idea.
} I also presume that it accesses all the power of 'zcalc' (because why
} *wouldn't* it?)
It's actually the other way around. zcalc accesses the power of $(( ))
but "looks" a bit more like a calculator.
--
Barton E. Schaefer
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-11 1:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-09 19:46 jdh
2015-01-09 20:15 ` Peter Stephenson
2015-01-09 21:40 ` jdh
2015-01-09 22:19 ` Ray Andrews
2015-01-09 23:06 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2015-01-09 23:52 ` Ray Andrews
2015-01-10 0:25 ` Bart Schaefer
2015-01-10 7:27 ` Ray Andrews
2015-01-10 16:53 ` Bart Schaefer
2015-01-10 18:48 ` Ray Andrews
2015-01-10 19:14 ` Bart Schaefer
2015-01-10 22:21 ` Ray Andrews
2015-01-11 1:51 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2015-01-11 5:10 ` Ray Andrews
2015-01-12 9:17 ` Vincent Lefevre
2015-01-12 16:18 ` ZyX
2015-01-13 16:00 ` Vincent Lefevre
2015-01-13 23:03 ` ZyX
2015-01-14 14:47 ` Vincent Lefevre
2015-01-14 21:37 ` ZyX
2015-01-15 13:34 ` Vincent Lefevre
2015-01-15 13:41 ` Vincent Lefevre
2015-01-15 18:32 ` ZyX
2015-01-15 21:57 ` Bart Schaefer
2015-01-09 22:40 ` Peter Stephenson
2015-01-12 10:55 ` Peter Stephenson
2015-01-14 15:02 ` Vincent Lefevre
2015-01-14 15:38 ` Peter Stephenson
2015-01-15 14:58 ` Peter Stephenson
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