diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'Doc/Zsh/arith.yo')
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/Zsh/arith.yo | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/Zsh/arith.yo b/Doc/Zsh/arith.yo index a620b73d1..5c334ce9c 100644 --- a/Doc/Zsh/arith.yo +++ b/Doc/Zsh/arith.yo @@ -233,6 +233,15 @@ necessary. In addition, if any operator which requires an integer equivalents with assignment) is given a floating point argument, it will be silently rounded down to the next integer. +Users should beware that, in common with many other programming +languages but not software designed for calculation, the evaluation of +an expression in zsh is taken a term at a time and promotion of integers +to floating point does not occur in terms only containing integers. A +typical result of this is that a division such as tt(6/8) is truncated, +in this being rounded down to 0. The tt(FORCE_FLOAT) shell option can +be used in scripts or functions where floating point evaluation is +required throughout. + Scalar variables can hold integer or floating point values at different times; there is no memory of the numeric type in this case. |