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Re: Why is a-b not equal to ((source of a) -b) ?
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Re: Why is a-b not equal to ((source of a) -b) ?


  • Subject: Re: Why is a-b not equal to ((source of a) -b) ?
  • From: Timothy Bates <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2002 17:36:42 +1000

> On Monday, September 2, 2002, at 06:26 PM, Timothy Bates wrote:
>> How come subtracting a large number from the result of getmillisec (an
>> osax call under X 10.2) seems not to do the subtraction?
>> GetMilliSec -ms2
>> -->7.9489387E+7
>> --> (when it should be about "7" or similar small number

Bill said
> Without parentheses, it thinks -ms2 is the target for the
> GetMilliSec event (I haven't verified that)

Thanks for the reply, but what does that mean? How can "minus var1" be a
target? What is a target?
Is GetMilliSec - var1 being interpreted as GetMilliSec of var1? If so, that
doesn't even make any sense, because var1 is a real number, and has no idea
how to get milliseconds. Oh well. Live and forget, I guess.

tim
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