[Gambas-user] Wrong error message

[Werner]

On 05/05/10 02:03, Benoît Minisini wrote:
>>> 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?
>
>   
openSuse 11.2/64 Gambas 2.19 gets also 500000