On 2/28/05 3:17 AM, "Nigel Garvey" <email@hidden>
wrote:
>> Actually it does not happen with division no matter "where" you divide
>>
>> 1/(text item 2 of "9") --> error as expected
>>
>>
>> (text item 2 of "9")/1 --> error as expected
>
> Maybe only automatic coercions from reference to number-of-unknown-class
> (after an operator) are susceptible to the effect you've discovered. '/'
> does exclusively real operations, so it already knows that it wants the
> reference coerced to real. Other operators apparently only make up their
> minds when they know if they're doing a real or integer operation. cf:
>
> 1 div (text item 2 of "9") --> 0
> 1.0 div (text item 2 of "9") --> error
>
> 1 * (text item 2 of "9") --> 3.31595369888126E-301
> 1.0 * (text item 2 of "9") --> error
But why is there a coercible 'text item 2 of "9"' in the first place?
text item 2 of "9"
--> ERROR: Can't get text item 2 of "9"
Whatever is in parentheses is supposed to be executed first. So I wonder why
all the statements, including the 1 * (...), don't error as they should?
That's the bit that's buggy.
--
Paul Berkowitz
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