Possible insanity, or is it LC 7.0.1?

[Graham Samuel]

It is so weird that I also I hope the mother ship explains in the end. The bug is now reported to be ‘awaiting build’. Given the (apparently) very ‘focused’ nature of the bug, it seems miraculous that anyone found it, least of all me!

Graham

> On 16 Jan 2015, at 08:07, Peter Alcibiades <palcibiades-first at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> Yes, verified this - new stack, new button, put this script onto it, and this
> is what it does.  This is Debian, 7.0 Community Edition.  Also verified it
> in multiline message box and tried a couple of other things.
> 
> What is really weird is that if you just change 1.884956 to 1.88495, it
> seems to run fine.  Also, if you change the +0 to +1 it seems to run fine
> with 1.884956.
> 
> Then if you add 3 to the number as in 1.884956, ie 1.8849563 it runs fine
> with +0.  Then if you change 1.884956 to 1.884955 it runs fine.
> 
> What on earth can it be?
> 
> Peter
> 
> 
> 
> Brahmanathaswami wrote
>> 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"
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