Who here has used a screw driver to open a can of paint? Perhaps you've used a paper towel to hold a slice of pizza when all the plates were in the dish washer? Have you used a pen to scratch your back? (etc., etc.) You must be breaking some rule or law of ethics (sarcasm)! Original intent of a product means nothing (when it comes to there being a bug in the product that should be fixed), and neither does any of your replies. Your replies have been completely irrelevant.
The fact is that mIRC provides a feature (the $calc function). The mIRC help file gives no warnings of stipulations/limits, such as the size of numbers given as arguments to the $calc function. Since the help file does NOT warn of a limit, while it IS limited, I consider this a bug. If I tried to send data on a socket using mIRC without checking the queue buffer, I wouldn't complain if I received an error because the mIRC help file specifically states that the buffer is limited to a maximum of 16384 bytes. The help file clearly states that when using $round and $int for floating point numbers, "The number of decimals is currently limited to 5 digits". Again, no limit is stated about the $calc function in it's ability to process large numbers. To fix this bug, I think it either needs to be stated in the help file that $calc is meant to be limited, or else the limitation needs to be fixed.
I'm using mIRC 6.01 under Windows 2000 Pro.
Last edited by zort; 30/09/03 04:40 PM.
