Re: Broken date math on AppleScript 2.0
Re: Broken date math on AppleScript 2.0
- Subject: Re: Broken date math on AppleScript 2.0
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:18:48 -0500
Could we get this Joe guy who makes $42 billion a year to help out
with the US national debt? :)
Good point about the change in the human-readable format when it
converts to float, though.
On 2/22/08, Philip Aker <email@hidden> wrote:
> On 2008-02-21, at 15:52:39, Mark J. Reed wrote:
>
> > "Unwarranted" is a value judgement. Applescript is designed for
> > users who neither know nor care how numbers are represented in bits.
> > Automatically promoting makes perfect sense. It's the fact that
> > the addition doesnt yield the right result numerically that makes
> > it a bug.
>
> It's not only the bit width. It's the actual representation. Ever had
> to deal with a government form?
>
> Name: Joe
> Age: 4.2E+1
> Income: 4.2E+10 /*yeah dream on buddy*/
>
> Out here in the wild west, an entry like that will have the clerk
> scowling at you in no time flat.
>
>
> >> Maybe that was good enough in 1992, but not anymore. And just
> >> because you two happen to think that unwarranted integer->float
> >> promotion is ok doesn't make it correct.
>
>
> Philip Aker
> echo email@hidden@nl | tr a-z@. p-za-o.@
>
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