Re: gnuplot cvs source bug

[Robert H. <en...@no...>]

On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 16:33 +0200, Petr Mikulik wrote:
> > Other counter-intuitive behaviour:
> >
> > gnuplot> print 1/(5**1)
> > 0
> > gnuplot> print (5**-1)
> > 0.2
> 
> Whether we like it or not, changing it now would break scripts, so we have 
> to accept this behaviour. (Well, it is a FAQ for a long long time.)

No, we just have to bear in mind that there would be a cost to changing
it and weigh that up against the cost of not changing it. In fact in
this case, it wouldn't surprise me if we ended up fixing currently
broken scripts.


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Robert Hart <en...@no...>
University of Nottingham


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