sorry about the typo, i restarted and it's working. Thanks for the quick reply! I must have jumbled something up a long the way.
On Wednesday, March 12, 2014 8:59:00 PM UTC-4, andrew cooke wrote: > > > for me > > julia> numToWrite < out > false > > have you redefined < or something? try restarting julia and testing again. > > also, as i think is obvious, 10000 is not less than 1, so the above is > correct, and you would not expect the value to change or the "if" to > execute. > > andrew > > > > On Wednesday, 12 March 2014 21:55:44 UTC-3, Jason Solack wrote: >> >> ok, so i feel like i'm missing something very obvious here... why isn't >> numToWrite updating in this code? >> >> >> out = 1 >> numToWrite = 10000 >> if numToWrite < out >> numToWrite = copy(out) >> end >> >> after that code executes numToWrite is still 10000. Both types are >> Int64, i've tried it with and without the copy()... >> >> when i execute >> >> numToWrite < out >> >> a 1 is returned as opposed to true. >> >> Thank you for your help! >> >> Jason >> >
