Re: Informal poll
Re: Informal poll
- Subject: Re: Informal poll
- From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 23:41:38 +1000
On 17 Jun 2014, at 10:49 pm, Emmanuel LEVY <email@hidden> wrote:
I confirm, here again ECMA makes a better job than Apple, look:
callJavaScript (make new _javascript_) script "'_javascript_: pi = ' + Math.PI"
-- "_javascript_: pi = 3.141592653589793"
"AppleScript: pi = " & pi
-- "AppleScript: pi = 3.14159265359"
16 vs 12 digits.
I'm not sure that's an accurate comparison. Just because AppleScript coerces a real to a string with 12 digits, doesn't mean the number itself is stored with only 12 digits of precision. You can show that it's not the case fairly easily:
3.14159265359 - pi Or:
pi * 10000 --> 3.14159265358979E+4
That suggests *possibly* the loss of one digit.
I think there are bigger fish to fry...
(But yes, I agree completely that we shouldn't need to resort to ASObjC or additions for most of the things they're used for.)
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