Re: What is this?
Re: What is this?
- Subject: Re: What is this?
- From: kai <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 20:31:19 +0000
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 07:37:35 -0800, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
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.
Agreed. Just to add further to the confusion (and I don't *think* this
has been mentioned yet), there seem to be a couple of ways to change
the result - apart from using a different machine/system.
Last night, I tried modifying a series of the quoted integer (0 * (item
2 of "1"), 0 * (item 2 of "2"), etc.) - and was rewarded with a
sequence that started:
"1" --> 1.41429518792415E-304
"2" --> 2.82859037584831E-304
"3" --> 4.24288556377246E-304
And the second way to get different results? Today, I tried running the
same script and was presented with this:
"1" --> 1.38937436070887E-304
"2" --> 2.77874872141775E-304
"3" --> 4.16812308212662E-304
I find it hard to believe myself that this happened on the same
machine. If it didn't, then I'm moving into the advanced stages of
senility. Go figure...
BTW, I imagine someone has already tried addition and subtraction, too:
-----------
set l to {}
repeat with n from 0 to 10
set n to n as string
set c to count n + 1
set l's end to {n:n, r:0 + (item c of n)}
end repeat
l
-----------
__> {{n:"0", r:1.38937436070887E-304}, {n:"1", r:1.0}, {n:"2", r:2.0},
{n:"3", r:3.0}, {n:"4", r:4.0}, {n:"5", r:5.0}, {n:"6", r:6.0}, {n:"7",
r:7.0}, {n:"8", r:8.0}, {n:"9", r:9.0}, {n:"10", r:10.0}}
- and subtraction:
--> {{n:"0", r:1.38937436070887E-304}, {n:"1", r:-1.0}, {n:"2",
r:-2.0}, {n:"3", r:-3.0}, {n:"4", r:-4.0}, {n:"5", r:-5.0}, {n:"6",
r:-6.0}, {n:"7", r:-7.0}, {n:"8", r:-8.0}, {n:"9", r:-9.0}, {n:"10",
r:-10.0}}
...all of which should error, too.
What would we do without these little diversions to amuse us? ;-)
---
kai
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