At 07:15p +0200 05/16/2003, Emmanuel didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus:

>At 10:22 AM -0400 16/05/03, Ethan Rips wrote:
>  >On 5/15/03 10:39 PM, Nigel Garvey <[log in to unmask]>
>  >wrote:
>  >
>  > > 1.5 as double integer
>  > > --> 2.0
>  >
>  >OMM (running 10.1.5) the result is 1.0. Does this behavior change depending
>  >on one's version of Applescript?
>
>LOL!
>
>I confirm, here 10.1.6 yields 2.0.
>
>10.1.5 has definitely been a strange thing.
>
>Emmanuel

Is unexpected behavior of an unsupported coercion considered a bug?
I guess nobody's tried '1.5 as integer' lately.

The double integer is not a real, it is a double integer. Remember 
that AppleScript often rounds terms off (e.g., text -> string), so 
just because it tells you that a double integer is a real does not 
make it so.

Moral: round any decimal numbers yourself before coercing to double.

Here are some class codes for numbers:

«class nmbr» = number
«class shor» = short integer
«class long» = integer
«class magn» = unsigned integer
«class comp» = double integer
«class doub» = real
«class exte» = extended real


-boo