Re: sorting words ?

2015-12-11 Thread Mark Waddingham
On 2015-12-11 07:56, Kay C Lan wrote: On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 4:38 PM, Mark Waddingham wrote: The "word" chunk is not loosely implemented - it does precisely what it is meant to do. Which of course is the reason why the sort container command has no problem if you sort by word on the righ

Re: Why aren't large numbers limited to 64 bit values?

2015-12-11 Thread Geoff Canyon
Thanks, I've written a few myself. I'll post them to the forum. gc On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 2:09 PM, wrote: > There are handlers developed to handle numbers of any length. See the > forums. "Routines for very large numbers" > > > Craig > > > > -Original Message- > From: Peter TB Brett >

LC 8 DP 11

2015-12-11 Thread sanke
Livecode 8 DP 11 apparently cannot be installed on Windows 7/ 32 . I tried an installation twice, both times the installation stopped (was not completed) after clicking the "Finish"-button, even after the first installation attempt I had deleted the previous DP 11 version from my machine. Th

Re: LC 8 DP 11

2015-12-11 Thread Peter TB Brett
On 2015-12-11 23:30, sa...@hrz.uni-kassel.de wrote: Livecode 8 DP 11 apparently cannot be installed on Windows 7/ 32 . I tried an installation twice, both times the installation stopped (was not completed) after clicking the "Finish"-button, even after the first installation attempt I had delete

Re: Why aren't large numbers limited to 64 bit values?

2015-12-11 Thread Geoff Canyon
On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 1:46 PM, Peter TB Brett wrote: > When numbers are too large to represent exactly, LiveCode automatically > shifts to using 64-bit IEEE floating point representation. Floating-point > numbers store a number in three pieces: > > 1) a sign bit > 2) an exponent (11 bits) > 3)

Re: Why aren't large numbers limited to 64 bit values?

2015-12-11 Thread Geoff Canyon
On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 1:17 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > Because the binary equivalent of a 40 digit decimal number is NOT 40 bits. > It is many more bits. For example the binary equivalent of > 1 (17 digits) is 1010101 (27 digits). > You are thinking of each deci

Re: sorting words ?

2015-12-11 Thread Geoff Canyon
On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 3:28 AM, Mark Waddingham wrote: > Hehe - perhaps best not to open that particular can of worms. For what its > worth, I'd actually class that behavior as an anomaly as it breaks the > logic of string lists - if there is a trailing delimiter, the trailing > delimiter should

Re: sorting words ?

2015-12-11 Thread Geoff Canyon
On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 3:28 AM, Mark Waddingham wrote: > I don't think I do agree with 'trying to do something sensible with the > whitespace' as I don't really see why that would be useful. If you break > down a string into a sequence of segments (I'll stop using word since it > perhaps obfusca

Re: Probably a pointless question about using sort to search..

2015-12-11 Thread Geoff Canyon
On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 12:47 PM, Peter Brigham wrote: > Someone on this list at some point posted an array sorting function that > might be relevant here for some applications. See below. > ​Why would anyone make a separate handler ​for this, and even more so, why make it a function that takes

Re: LC 8 DP 11

2015-12-11 Thread [-hh]
Peter, I don't think that it is a characteristic of a developer preview that an installer starts with preview 11 not to work any more. Wilhelm wasn't angry about "horrible bugs" (there will be some unsatisfying things even in the 'stable' versions of LC 7 for his great work in using LC for ima

Re: Probably a pointless question about using sort to search..

2015-12-11 Thread Alex Tweedly
I haven't read everything in this thread, so I don't know if Peter's function handled this or not ... On 11/12/2015 23:32, Geoff Canyon wrote: On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 12:47 PM, Peter Brigham wrote: Someone on this list at some point posted an array sorting function that might be relevant

Re: LC 8 DP 11

2015-12-11 Thread [-hh]
Peter, this is the sunny side of the story: If the LC 8-dp11 installer works then one can see a lot of improvements, especially in the HTML5 standalone engine and Livecode Builder. HTML5 has, TMO, now switched from 'very experimental' to 'experimental' :-)) Hermann

Re: Probably a pointless question about using sort to search..

2015-12-11 Thread Geoff Canyon
On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 6:51 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote: > > I haven't read everything in this thread, so I don't know if Peter's > function handled this or not ... > > On 11/12/2015 23:32, Geoff Canyon wrote: > >> On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 12:47 PM, Peter Brigham wrote: >> >>> >>> But back to the fir

Re: sorting words ?

2015-12-11 Thread Kay C Lan
On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 7:24 AM, Geoff Canyon wrote: > > > I don't think I do agree with 'trying to do something sensible with the > > whitespace' as I don't really see why that would be useful. > > ​I agree that "sensible" is difficult to define here. OK, quickly off the top of my head I can

Re: sorting words ?

2015-12-11 Thread Geoff Canyon
On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 8:39 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: > 2) The List is outputted with a single space between each segment. This > would mean that if there happened to be tabs or multiple spaces between > certain segments, these would be removed/converted. This is helpful. > > 3) A straight reshuffle,