Re: magic integer converter number 62?
Re: magic integer converter number 62?
- Subject: Re: magic integer converter number 62?
- From: John W Baxter <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 15:37:16 -0800
At 14:49 -0800 2/22/01, Chris Nebel wrote:
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OK, this has gone on quite long enough. The basic problem has to do
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with the limitations of finite-precision numbers. What scripting
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additions you have installed makes no difference, but the version of
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AppleScript does, since we've tweaked the behavior several times.
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(Obviously, it's still not quite right.)
Thanks, Chris...that (plus the parts I didn't quote) explains very nicely
why some
<computation> as integer
commands failed to produce errors when they "should" have. AppleScript is
trying to help (and thereby sometimes hiding the fact that a result isn't
exact).
That paragraph sounds as if I disapprove: in the AppleScript environment,
I don't. (In a language for "programmers" I would.)
--John
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John Baxter email@hidden Port Ludlow, WA, USA