I confirm this bug is in 10.6.8 too.
On Fri, 12 Apr 2013 12:30:08 +0200, Andreas Kiel
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>Hi Mark,
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>This annoying error has been around since a long time.
>I always converted "text numbers" to "real numbers"
and did check the decimal divider used with the current system.
>You can figure out that with a short test
>set testDiv to 1/2
>The result may be 0.5 or 0,5
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>- Andreas
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>On Apr 8, 2013, at 8:05 PM, Mark Lively wrote:
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>> Since there has been some activity I want to share this
warning.
>>
>> In older version of Applescript (before 10.7)
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>> set n to "4.1"
>> set n to -n
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>> would yield -4.1
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>> Under 10.7 and 10.8 it yields -4
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>> It seems the default coercion is to integer rather than
number.
>>
>> bizarrely,
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>> set n to -1 * n
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>> yields -4.1
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>> -Mark
>> Fixed my code, Documented my fixes, Filed a bug report