Possible insanity, or is it LC 7.0.1?

[Graham Samuel]

Now reported as a bug (14386) - I’ve included a reference to this thread to show that my observation is backed up by many listers. Thanks everyone. Thanks Jacque for doubting the sanity of SANE.

Graham


> On 15 Jan 2015, at 10:00, Henk van der Velden <henk at ludisstudio.com> wrote:
> 
> I get the same error here, same setup: OS X 10.10.1, LC7.0.1 build 10023
> So it’s definitely not just you!
> Henk
> 
>> On 15 Jan 2015, at 09:12, use-livecode-request at lists.runrev.com wrote:
>> 
>> Message: 6
>> Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 00:06:12 +0100
>> From: Graham Samuel <livfoss at mac.com <mailto:livfoss at mac.com>>
>> To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com <mailto:use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>>
>> Subject: Re: Possible insanity, or is it LC 7.0.1?
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>> 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"
>> But of course YMMV. I am quite happy to be told it?s my fault, but the fact is that this is just an abstraction of something that has arisen in the middle of a loop that produces a table of values based on input parameters which are all very similar: the loop suddenly hits an error only on this particular value. It has worked in earlier versions of LC, but now I?m wedded to Unicode, it?s got to work with LC 7.
>> 
>> If I ever get an explanation, I?ll tell the list about it.
>> 
>> Cheers
>> 
>> Graham
>>