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Re: number


  • Subject: Re: number
  • From: "Nigel Garvey" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 11:43:31 +0100

kai wrote on Tue, 27 Sep 2005 00:18:43 +0100:

>On 26 Sep 2005, at 23:02, Nigel Garvey wrote:
>
>> Well. Just to argue the point. :-) Those don't look like "coercion
>> failures of reals" to me, but resolution failures of references.
>
>No argument, Nigel. :-) I was merely referring to the error code for
>number -1700 (errAECoercionFail).

Ah yes. I hadn't appreciated that. You could be right. I was short-
circuiting to the idea that "Can't make 1.2 into type number" was
indicative of a reference problem -- especially since no coercion was
actually expected. If it had said "Can't make 1.2 into type integer," I
might have short-circuited differently.  ;-)

NG

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