Nick--
I know this was once true, and used to be the source of much
frustration in -while- loops, but is it still the case?
local pi=_pi
scalar pi=_pi
di %32.20f `pi'
di %32.20f pi
di %32.20f float(pi)
suggests not.
On 12/20/06, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
The answer is Yes, and this is prominently documented.
Although it is unlikely to be the source of the problem,
it will do no harm to cast anything you care about as
a scalar not a local.
Nick
[email protected]
Rachel
> Another issue is that some constants inside the
> evaluator are defined as scalars and others as locals. Do locals
> (when evaluated with single quotes) have a lower precision than
> scalars?
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