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Re: Very strange dates - BUG
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Re: Very strange dates - BUG


  • Subject: Re: Very strange dates - BUG
  • From: Thomas <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 21:31:45 +0100

That is clearly a bug, -2^2 should return -4 of course. This lead to eratic behaviour when you use this kind of calcul.

Thomas

Doug McNutt wrote :

Try: set r to -2^2

The return is +4 because Applescript gives higher precedence to a unary minus than anything else. It's possible that an associated bug affects x +(-1).
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