From: Peter Whaite <peta@cortexmachina.com>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: Re: Floating point support?
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 13:59:28 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199909151759.NAA03101@ursula.cortexmachina.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 15 Sep 1999 09:16:19 +0200." <199909150716.JAA30604@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de>
Sven Wischnowsky said:
>
> Peter Stephenson wrote:
>
> > I'm thinking about adding some floating point support to zsh; this is just
> > to canvas opinions.
>
> Yes!
Yes. Its very useful in ksh93 (pksh).
>
> > My idea is to add a floating point parameter type,
> > together with support in math evaluations (which would involve stuff like
> > promoting integers to floats etc.).
>
> That's what I was thinking about, too.
>
> > ...
> >
> > - Is anyone able to summarise what the status is with other shells
> > (particularly ksh)?
>
> I once looked for floating point support in ksh, but don't remember
> everything, so... http://www.kornshell.com (sorry ;-)
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~jlk/kornshell/doc/man93.html
http://members.xoom.com/_XOOM/dfrench/kshman93.html
You could also download UWIN from
http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/uwin/
and that would give you a man page, and an "official" ksh, for NT/98/95.
---
peta
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-09-15 17:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-09-15 7:16 Sven Wischnowsky
1999-09-15 15:20 ` Bart Schaefer
1999-09-15 17:59 ` Peter Whaite [this message]
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1999-09-14 15:56 Peter Stephenson
1999-09-14 17:06 ` Bart Schaefer
1999-09-15 9:19 ` Peter Stephenson
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