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Re: forcing float arithmetic.

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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Zsh Users <zsh-users@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: forcing float arithmetic.
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2021 10:56:32 -0700
Archived-at: <https://zsh.org/users/26591>
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On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 10:20 AM Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Why are answers dumbed down like that?

Every subexpression is considered independently, so float conversion
doesn't take place until the assignment is evaluated.  The type of the
lvalue does not propagate across every rvalue.

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