On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 1:42 PM Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
wrote:
> Been working Panos off list.
>
> There is a caveat, jsonImport and jsonExport not only "display" but
> "preserve" the scientific notation as a literal string and math will fail.
>
> Panos says: must use, (and
Hello all,
There is not a lost of precision in the operations. The problem is just
that LCB *displays* the value of large numbers in scientific notation, but
if you actually do any calculations with the variables that hold these
numbers, the calculations are accurate.
In other words the
One tries his best to not get excited by bugs that are left untouched, With
some OS's to. keep current, engineering has a tough time, we all know that …
but this one pushes a button…
bug https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=18159
How can such a bug go unfixed for three years?
Hello Brahmanathaswami,
I think this is because of how currently some handlers in lcb work.
See bug https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=18159 (and the related
bugs) for more details.
This affects other areas, such as how large numbers are shown in the
variables pane in the debugger.
setPref "preferences/global/lastRunDate", (the seconds) # e.g 1568144731
put getPref ("preferences/global/lastRunDate") into tLastRunDate
returns
{"preferences":
{"global":
