Help with passing floats through apple events

[slack@starbase.MITRE.ORG (M. G. Slack)]

I am looking for a way to pass floats (short-floats) in an apple event.

What I need is a pointer to the location of the short-float much like the
(%int-to-ptr i) function I would like a %short-float-to-ptr function so that I
can poke the bytes of the float.

Thanks for the help,
Marc.