Thanks to those who replied. So, I am going crazy! I suppose it is something very particular about my setup. I did find one other way to show the anomaly, which was to put
put 1.884956 into it; put value(it+0) this gives me the error "Message execution error: Error description: value: error executing expression Hint: 1.884956" But of course YMMV. I am quite happy to be told it’s my fault, but the fact is that this is just an abstraction of something that has arisen in the middle of a loop that produces a table of values based on input parameters which are all very similar: the loop suddenly hits an error only on this particular value. It has worked in earlier versions of LC, but now I’m wedded to Unicode, it’s got to work with LC 7. If I ever get an explanation, I’ll tell the list about it. Cheers Graham > On 14 Jan 2015, at 23:48, Roger Guay <i...@mac.com> wrote: > > Graham, > > I get true in both cases, same setup. > > Roger > >> On Jan 14, 2015, at 1:03 PM, Graham Samuel <livf...@mac.com> wrote: >> >> Using LC 7.0.1 on Yosemite 1010.1, when I type this into the message box >> >> put (1.884955 is a number) >> >> I get true, as expected, but if I put >> >> put (1.884956 is a number) >> >> I get >> >> Script compile error: >> Error description: Expression: unquoted literal >> >> This result was derived from some complex code so I originally thought that >> the character string could have been corrupt with invisible characters, but >> I retyped the numbers myself. This seems so mad that I need someone to >> confirm it, even though I find it completely repeatable. I tried it on LC >> 6.7 (which just happens to be on my machine) and I got true as expected. >> >> Someone tell me I am not crazy. >> >> TIA >> >> Graham >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >> preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
