[Gambas-user] Wrong error message
Benoît Minisini
gambas at ...1...
Tue May 4 20:03:15 CEST 2010
> > I feel something weird in using an integer variable as if it was a
> > string, and the above snippet does that.
>
> As I said earlier, it is sometimes useful. Datatype is integer because
> all other usage of that variable is mundane math.
> But of course there are many other ways to do same thing.
> Example;
> n += i * exp10(i)
> Or using temporarily string variable for concatenate and then convert
> back to integer.
> But I'm accustomed to use most simplest expression n &= i.
>
> BTW. 5*exp10(5) gives 500000.000000001 weird?
On my 32 bits Mandriva, I get 500000, both with Gambas 2 and Gambas 3. Could
other 64 bits users confirm that?
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Benoît Minisini
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