Possible insanity, or is it LC 7.0.1?

Roger Guay irog at mac.com
Wed Jan 14 17:48:44 EST 2015


Graham,

I get true in both cases, same setup.

Roger

> On Jan 14, 2015, at 1:03 PM, Graham Samuel <livfoss at mac.com> wrote:
> 
> Using LC 7.0.1 on Yosemite 1010.1, when I type this into the message box
> 
>  put (1.884955 is a number)
> 
> I get true, as expected, but if I put
> 
>  put (1.884956 is a number)
> 
> I get 
> 
> Script compile error:
> Error description: Expression: unquoted literal
> 
> This result was derived from some complex code so I originally thought that the character string could have been corrupt with invisible characters,  but I retyped the numbers myself. This seems so mad that I need someone to confirm it, even though I find it completely repeatable. I tried it on LC 6.7 (which just happens to be on my machine) and I got true as expected.
> 
> Someone tell me I am not crazy.
> 
> TIA
> 
> Graham
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