Re: What is a real?

2020-04-25 Thread Quentin Long via use-livecode
sez Bob Sneidar :>Apparently nothing is a real. Neither is anything strictly a real.  [singing] "Let me take you down, 'coz I'm going to Strawberry Fields…" ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Re: What is a real?

2020-04-25 Thread Paul Hibbert via use-livecode
use-livecode > To: How to use LiveCode > Cc: Mark Waddingham > Sent: Sat, Apr 25, 2020 1:14 pm > Subject: Re: What is a real? > > The ‘is strictly’ operators allow you to detect what the actual internal > storage type of a value is. Some things generate numbers which are stored

Re: What is a real?

2020-04-25 Thread dunbarx--- via use-livecode
ddingham via use-livecode To: How to use LiveCode Cc: Mark Waddingham Sent: Sat, Apr 25, 2020 1:14 pm Subject: Re: What is a real? The ‘is strictly’ operators allow you to detect what the actual internal storage type of a value is. Some things generate numbers which are stored as int32s but most

Re: What is a real?

2020-04-25 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 4/25/20 10:23 AM, doc hawk via use-livecode wrote: [that said, the first non-comment line in any Fortran I write is “Implicit None”. My livecode is also always set to require explicit declaration, and I’m the odd one out here in really wonting to add strong types to livecode . . .]

Re: What is a real?

2020-04-25 Thread doc hawk via use-livecode
On Apr 25, 2020, at 10:19 AM, Kee Nethery via use-livecode wrote: > > In FORTRAN, any variable that starts with a letter in the alphabet from “I” > to “N” is an INteger. All other variables are reals (something expressed in > scientific notation). Leading to the observation that “GOD is

Re: What is a real?

2020-04-25 Thread Kee Nethery via use-livecode
In FORTRAN, any variable that starts with a letter in the alphabet from “I” to “N” is an INteger. All other variables are reals (something expressed in scientific notation). Kee Nethery ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com

Re: What is a real?

2020-04-25 Thread doc hawk via use-livecode
Mark mumbled, > If it helps any (hint: it doesn't) it's the currency of Brazil. I think it has something to do with strawberry fields . . . ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe

Re: What is a real?

2020-04-25 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
IIRC). Sent from my iPhone > On 25 Apr 2020, at 17:44, Brian Milby via use-livecode > wrote: > > In your initial example, they are all strings. 1.1+0 would be strictly a > real. What is troubling is that I’m seeing that 1+200 is not strictly an > integer yet the

Re: What is a real?

2020-04-25 Thread Brian Milby via use-livecode
In your initial example, they are all strings.  1.1+0 would be strictly a real.  What is troubling is that I’m seeing that 1+200 is not strictly an integer yet the docs say it should be. Thanks, Brian On Apr 25, 2020, 12:06 PM -0400, Mark Wieder via use-livecode , wrote: > On 4/25/20 7:40

Re: What is a real?

2020-04-25 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 4/25/20 7:40 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: Apparently nothing is a real. Neither is anything strictly a real. put 1 is strictly a real — false put 1.1 is strictly a real — false put 1.1 is a real — compilation error If it helps any (hint: it doesn't) it's the currency of Brazil.

Re: What is a real?

2020-04-25 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 4/25/2020 10:40 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: Apparently nothing is a real. Neither is anything strictly a real. I have never heard a more philosophical statement in all my life ;-) ___ use-livecode mailing list

What is a real?

2020-04-25 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Apparently nothing is a real. Neither is anything strictly a real. put 1 is strictly a real — false put 1.1 is strictly a real — false put 1.1 is a real — compilation error Bob S ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please