On Wed Mar 03 08:30:35 2010, masak wrote: > <masak> pugs: say 1/7/7/7/7/7/7/7*7 > <p6eval> pugs: OUTPUT«0.0000084998597523140868175675101360827546» > <masak> rakudo: say 1/7/7/7/7/7/7/7*7 # also found by diakopter++ > <p6eval> rakudo f6092e: OUTPUT«1» > * masak submits rakudobug > <diakopter> I don't get that one > <diakopter> it's not fully left-associative nor fully right-associative > <masak> me neither. kudos to whoever gets it. > <masak> hey, look at this! > <frettled> hmm? > <masak> rakudo: .say for 1/7*7, 1/7/7*7, 1/7/7/7*7, 1/7/7/7/7*7 > <p6eval> rakudo 4edd19: OUTPUT«10.14285714285714310.142857142857143» > <masak> that explains it, I think. > <masak> the 7's cancel each other out. > <diakopter> right > <diakopter> but how > <masak> diakopter: it's as if / had higher prec than * > <diakopter> they would cancel each other out if it were right-associative > <diakopter> if "/" were right-assoc I mean > <masak> maybe it is. > <masak> well, something's wrong, at least.
This appears to be fixed in latest Rakudo: 04:31 <@jnthn> rakudo: say 1/7/7/7/7/7/7/7*7 04:31 <+p6eval> rakudo e40ee4: OUTPUT«8.49985975231409e-06» Giving to moritz++ for spectests. Thanks, Jonathan