empty is zero

Scott Morrow scott at elementarysoftware.com
Thu Jul 9 18:11:12 EDT 2009


Hello Mark,

But shouldn't the isNumber function show it to be a number at that  
point?  I'm evaluating it as both empty, not a number and zero.

Thanks,

Scott


On Jul 9, 2009, at 3:05 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote:

> Scott,
>
> It looks like as soon as you pass a parameter, it gets parsed and  
> hence gets a value of 0, similar to when you parse empty*1.
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> On 9 jul 2009, at 23:56, Scott Morrow wrote:
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>> Hello Mark,
>>
>>> If you check empty = 0, you'll get false
>>
>> I DO get false in the message box  but in a handler where there is  
>> nothing being passed in the parameter I get the following (note  
>> that expressly putting empty into the parameter variable does give  
>> the expected result.)
>>
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