Re: REQUEST - bash floating point math support

[Saint Michael]

Anybody else with the knowledge to tackle this?
I am not capable of even writing C code correctly.

On Fri, Jun 21, 2024 at 4:22 PM Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:
>
> On 6/21/24 3:59 PM, alex xmb sw ratchev wrote:
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> >      > If floating point math support is added to bash, I would expect it to
> >      > be able to handle floating point literals in these forms as well.
> >
> >     I'm not planning to do this any time soon.
> >
> >
> > sorry my forgetness ... why ?
>
> Because if floating point math support gets added to bash, someone has to
> do the work. It's not a priority for me right now, and no one else is
> offering.
>
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> Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
>