MOD function does not work! So be warned!

[Richard Gaskin]

Ian Summerfield  writes:

> Revolution 1.1.1b2 (OS X 10.1.3) seems to think 5 mod 5 = 5 whereas it is
> zero.
...
> Try this code:
> 
> on mouseup
>  put 235 into startPoint
>  put 255 into endPoint
>  put 0.1 into increment
>  put empty into msg
>  put startPoint into loop
>  repeat while loop<=endPoint
>   put loop && loop mod 5 & return after msg
>   add increment to loop
>  end repeat
> end mouseup
...
> 255 5   <<<<---- wrong and impossible

Interestingly, when you type  "put 5 mod 5" (or "255 md 5" or other number
divisible by five that fails when inside a loop) into the Message Box the
result is 0.

Stranger still, if you rewrite the line like this so that the loop var is
evaluated outside of the rest of the statement:

  do "put loop &tab&"& loop &&"mod 5 & return after msg"

...you get 0.

What is it about loops that affects this so?

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