I apologize for putting this off for so long; I’ve been expecting to see more changes that need to be made in scripts after upgrading to Ventura, because this is hardly worth a post. But it could be very annoying if you’re relying on padmath.
Padmath stopped working after upgrading to Ventura. I noticed that very quickly—it’s one of my most commonly-used Services. But it’s a simple fix. The version of bc on Ventura now has an abs function. This means that abs is now a reserved word, and cannot be used to create a custom function.
Since the custom function was just a means of adding an abs function anyway, delete the lines that define the custom abs function and padmath will start working again.
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define abs(value) {
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if (value < 0) {
- return -value
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} else {
- return value
- }
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if (value < 0) {
- }
I haven’t yet noticed any other issues with using the scripts under Ventura.
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