From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13657 invoked from network); 15 Sep 1999 15:20:57 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 15 Sep 1999 15:20:57 -0000 Received: (qmail 9102 invoked by alias); 15 Sep 1999 15:20:46 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 7854 Received: (qmail 9080 invoked from network); 15 Sep 1999 15:20:44 -0000 From: "Bart Schaefer" Message-Id: <990915152035.ZM28491@candle.brasslantern.com> Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 15:20:35 +0000 In-Reply-To: <199909150716.JAA30604@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de> Comments: In reply to Sven Wischnowsky "Re: Floating point support?" (Sep 15, 9:16am) References: <199909150716.JAA30604@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de> X-Mailer: Z-Mail (5.0.0 30July97) To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk Subject: Re: Floating point support? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Sep 15, 9:16am, Sven Wischnowsky wrote: } Subject: Re: Floating point support? } } Bart Schaefer wrote: } } > Another is that array subscripts are math-eval'd, and some pretty strange } > things may happen in any code that relies upon multiplication or division } > to compute subscripts if floating point gets involved (even if the result } > is rounded down). Not that I'm directly aware of any such code ... } } Hm, but that last one is the same as in every other programming } language. The difference is that one used to be able to count on a certain behavior from zsh, and we're talking about changing that. } So maybe it's OK if we just mention these problems in the docs. Probably. It's not as if we haven't changed plenty of other behavior already ... -- Bart Schaefer Brass Lantern Enterprises http://www.well.com/user/barts http://www.brasslantern.com