* Re: forcing output type
[not found] ` <20010923164705.A15106@fysh.org>
@ 2001-09-23 16:18 ` Clint Adams
2001-09-23 17:16 ` Zefram
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Clint Adams @ 2001-09-23 16:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: zsh-workers
[moved to -workers]
> The expression "2/3" is a truncating integer division; its value is
> exactly 0. Just as in C, if you want to do a floating-point division
> you have to provide floating-point operands.
Would anyone object to something like $(( [#.] 2/3 )) to
avoid integer truncation?
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* Re: forcing output type
2001-09-23 16:18 ` forcing output type Clint Adams
@ 2001-09-23 17:16 ` Zefram
2001-09-27 15:33 ` Clint Adams
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Zefram @ 2001-09-23 17:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Clint Adams; +Cc: zsh-workers
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
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* Re: forcing output type
2001-09-23 17:16 ` Zefram
@ 2001-09-27 15:33 ` Clint Adams
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Clint Adams @ 2001-09-27 15:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Zefram; +Cc: zsh-workers
> But I wonder why you want to do this at all. What application do you
> have in mind?
I have encountered some people that have functions that pipe the arguments
to 'bc -l', and it seems as though the dependency on bc could be dropped
rather easily.
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