Possible insanity, or is it LC 7.0.1?

[Brahmanathaswami]

You are not crazy and it's not just your machine

confirmed here Yosemite 10.10 LC 7.0.1

on mouseUp
      put 1.884956 into tVar
   put value(tVar + 0)
end mouseUp

button "Button": execution error at line 3 (value: error executing 
expression) near "1.884956", char 1

BR



Graham Samuel wrote:
> Thanks to those who replied. So, I am going crazy! I suppose it is something very particular about my setup. I did find one other way to show the anomaly, which was to put
>
>    put 1.884956 into it; put value(it+0)
>
> this gives me the error
> "Message execution error:
> Error description: value: error executing expression
> Hint: 1.884956"