Variable with float value is nil

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On 31/01/2012 at 07:14, xxxxxxxx wrote:

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Try the following:

  
main(doc,op)   
{   
var temp=10.0;   
println(temp==nil);   
}   

I get a 1, saying that it is a nil.
But if you modify the first line to:

  
var temp=10;   

It returns 0, saying it is not a nil.
This is a bug, right?

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On 31/01/2012 at 07:20, xxxxxxxx wrote:

I have a parsing function that parses for numbers, strings and variables. It works just fine except if it parses a floating point number. Because, when I try to check if it found a legitimate value (it is!!!) so that I could use it, with:

  
if(value!=nil) ...   

It returns me a nil because it can't see that it is a numerical floating point value.
This is ruining my code that was previosly working just fine (in release 11.5).

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On 31/01/2012 at 14:10, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Now it really looks like a bug.
If I change the code to:

  
main(doc,op)   
{   
var t=10.1;   
println(t==nil);   
}   

It will print out 0, as expected.
It is only when the float is equal to its integer (as in, 1.0 or 10.0 ou -2.0) that the test for nil returns true.

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On 31/01/2012 at 15:40, xxxxxxxx wrote:

I can also confirm that nil doesn't seem to work when the decimal value is .0.

Can you use this as an alternative to nil in your projects Rui?:

main(doc,op)  
{  
var t=10.0;  
if(t!=null)println(t);  
}

-ScottA

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On 31/01/2012 at 15:57, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Yes, with null it seems to be working.
Anyway, I already reported it to Maxon.
Thank you, Scott