Small and strange problem

[scott at elementarysoftware.com]

How does tMins acquire the data? Are you certain it contains what you expect when you aren’t stepping through the code (and slowing things down)? perhaps a “put tMins" or “answer tMins” would expose something. (Probably not, but we are curious!)
—
Scott

> On May 10, 2020, at 12:52 PM, Tom Glod via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> try putting a space between the left and right of the / and see if you
> still get it.
> 
> On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 1:10 PM Paul Hibbert via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
>> No replies so far, so I had a few minutes spare and tried to recreate this
>> problem, but couldn’t. No matter what I put into tMins first, even an empty
>> variable still returned 0, so my suggestion would be to wrap the script in
>> a try - catch to see what’s going on with the left operand (tMins) during
>> the equation, something like:
>> 
>>   try
>>      put (tMins/60) into tMins
>>   catch tError
>>      if tError then answer "An Error Occurred;"  && tError & return &
>> "tMins =" && tMins
>>   end try
>> 
>> I tried in both versions of LC that you mentioned and saw no problem.
>> 
>> Maybe somebody else will have a better idea.
>> 
>> Paul
>> 
>>> On May 9, 2020, at 07:05, Graham Samuel via use-livecode <
>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I’m using LC 9.6.0 dp4 and 9.5.1 - this issue is seen in both versions.
>>> 
>>> I have a script with a very simple statement:
>>> put (tMins/60) into tMins
>>> 
>>> tMins contains a number, and as expected I get a numeric result, for
>> example if tMins is 31, I get 0.516667
>>> 
>>> but ONLY when I step through the script in the IDE. If I let the script
>> run, the IDE reports an error:
>>> 
>>>> Execution error (operators /: error in left operand, char 1
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Either there’s an error or there isn’t. What can be wrong? I suppose as
>> usual it’s me, but I am foxed.
>>> 
>>> Graham
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