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Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 18:16:23 +0100
To: Clint Adams <clint@zsh.org>
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Subject: Re: forcing output type
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From: Zefram <zefram@fysh.org>

Clint Adams wrote:
>Would anyone object to something like $(( [#.] 2/3 )) to
>avoid integer truncation?

It's not a very clean way to do it -- it's changing the input language
for an expression, and doesn't inherently apply to the entire $(())
(unlike the existing "[#n]" output-base flag).  It would be better to
localise it; say, "floatops{2/3}" as a subexpression.

But I wonder why you want to do this at all.  What application do you
have in mind?

-zefram