Such strange goings-on! I get Paul's results when I do it Paul’s way, but I don’t get Graham’s results when I do it his way via the message box!!
Does that make me half crazy? > On Jan 14, 2015, at 5:07 PM, Paul Hibbert <p...@livecode.org> wrote: > > You're not going totally crazy, unless I am too. > > This fails here in LC7.0.1 on Mac OS X 10.10.1… > > on mouseUp > put 1.884956 into tVar > put value(tVar + 0) > end mouseUp > > …With the following error; > button "A": execution error at line 3 (value: error executing expression) > near "1.884956", char 1 > > But this works… > > on mouseUp > put 1.884955 into tVar > add 0.000001 to tVar > put value(tVar + 0) > end mouseUp > > …And this works; > > on mouseUp > local tVar = "1.884956" > put value(tVar + 0) > end mouseUp > > Then if you use Try/Catch, they all fail in LC7.0.1, but work in LC5.5.5! > > Paul. :-/ > > >> On Jan 14, 2015, at 3:06 PM, Graham Samuel <livf...@mac.com> wrote: >> >> 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
