Help me understand infinity

Martin Koob mkoob at rogers.com
Thu Jul 30 20:28:09 EDT 2020


I thought that this was already released in LC 9.0.5 
https://livecode-blogger.blogspot.com/2019/05/livecode-905-released.html

I  sure what the use case is for infinity never mind ‘beyond’.

Martin

> On Jul 29, 2020, at 1:57 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> In the v9.6.1RC1 Release Notes there's this:
> 
>   Infinity constant
>   The constant infinity has been added to the language in this release.
>   As a result, theunquoted literal infinity is now reserved. Any
>   existing uses of it should be quoted, as otherwiseit will resolve to
>   the floating point value representing infinity, rather than the
>   string "infinity".
> 
> What is the use-case prompting this?
> 
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> Richard Gaskin
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