Zugg Software :: View topic - Minor bug: #show/#say and very large numbers.

Magician Joined: 17 Apr 2005 Posts: 496

Just what the subject says, if you try and

#show {99999999999999999999}

or anything larger then 9223372036854775807 without quotation marks, it will display 9223372036854775807 instead...even if you weren't actually intending to treat it as a real number. Not major, obviously, since quotation marks do work nicely, just something I came across.

Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 7:23 pm

That's true. CMUD only supports 64-bit integers (zMUD only supported 32-bit, so it was even worse).

Magician Joined: 17 Apr 2005 Posts: 496

ZMud didn't have this problem, though, possibly because it didn't treat a random string of digits in a #show as a number... it actually baffled me for a while, because CMud doesn't seem to #show numbers any differently then ZMud, except for apparently trying to store them as such (and failing). Another example of something breaking:

#show {blah 999999999999999999999 blah}

Wizard Joined: 14 Aug 2004 Posts: 1269

But the number in quotes and it will be treated as a string...