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+# "scale" not set correctly with -l when first command is a syntax error
+
+## `mathieu`
+
+I just hit a (small and unlikely to be triggered) problem when using the `-l` flag:
+
+```
+$ bc -l
+>>> 2+; # or any other syntax error it seems
+
+Parse error: bad expression
+    <stdin>:1
+
+>>> l(1000)
+6
+>>> scale
+0
+```
+
+The math library still gets loaded but `scale` doesn't get set (or gets reset)?
+
+The syntax error has to be on the first command and other kinds of errors (like say a divide by zero) don't seem to cause the problem.
+
+## `gavin`
+
+Hmm...let me investigate this and get back to you. This does seem like a bug.
+
+## `gavin`
+
+I'm not seeing the behavior. Can you send me the output of `bc -v`?
+
+## `gavin`
+
+I should also ask: what OS are you on? What version? What compiler did you use? Did you install from a package?
+
+Basically, send me as much info as you can. I would appreciate it.
+
+## `mathieu`
+
+Oh sorry yeah I should've given more details.
+
+That's on FreeBSD with the base system's bc, built with the default base compiler.
+
+On recent 12.2-STABLE:
+
+```
+$ bc -v
+bc 4.0.1
+Copyright (c) 2018-2021 Gavin D. Howard and contributors
+Report bugs at: https://git.yzena.com/gavin/bc
+
+This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
+```
+
+Your bc is not default on 12.X yet but I enabled it with WITH_GH_BC=yes in /etc/src.conf to try it out.
+
+And on somewhat less recent 14-CURRENT:
+
+```
+$ bc -v
+bc 4.0.0
+Copyright (c) 2018-2021 Gavin D. Howard and contributors
+Report bugs at: https://git.yzena.com/gavin/bc
+
+This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
+```
+
+Both amd64. Happens every time on both.
+
+I could give it a try on 13-STABLE too if that helps but I'd need to reboot something.
+
+The syntax error really has to be the FIRST input, even entering an empty line before it makes the problem not happen.
+
+I thought it could be an editline(3) problem since some programs end up using that pretty much only on the BSDs it seems, but that's not it.
+
+## `gavin`
+
+Yeah, my `bc` uses a custom history implementation, so it could be mine, but not `editline(3)`.
+
+I will pull up a FreeBSD VM and check it out. Sorry for the wait.
+
+## `gavin`
+
+I have confirmed the bug on FreeBSD with the port at version `4.0.1`. Since it is the port, and not the system one, I think the problem may lie with some incompatibility between my history implementation and what FreeBSD provides.
+
+This one may take me a long time to debug because I have to do it manually in the VM. Thank you for your patience.
+
+## `gavin`
+
+I found the problem!
+
+It is fixed in `299a4fd353`, but if you can pull that down and test, I would appreciate it.
+
+I will put out a release as soon as I can, and my FreeBSD contact will probably update 14-CURRENT soon thereafter. He will also update the port, but the version in 12.2 may not be updated for a bit.
+
+Feel free to reopen if the fix does not work for you.
+
+## `mathieu`
+
+Oof... yeah makes sense that an rc file could interfere with this.
+
+Yes, that fixes it here too. With that diff applied on both 12.2-STABLE and 14-CURRENT's versions. And everything else seems to still work fine too.
+
+Thanks for fixing this! You'd think it's really hard to trigger but I do enough typos and I start bc (with an alias with -l) often enough to make a quick calculation that I hit it twice and had decimals mysteriously missing before I started trying to reproduce it.