31 Jan
1998
31 Jan
'98
5:47 a.m.
At 11:20 PM 1/30/98, Hamish (DP) Harvey wrote:
A minor reorganisation and some small changes let it file in. If it works properly I still don't know, though matrix multiplication looks OK. One thing which has come up, though: several methods use local variables in blocks thus:
aNumber isComplex ifTrue: [| u v | u := ...snip...
which squeak doesn't like.
Block temporaries are now standard ANSI Smalltalk, but was not in the original Smalltalk-80 nor yet in Squeak. You can probably convert all those methods by pulling the temporaries up to the method level, i.e.
| u v | aNumber isComplex ifFrue: [u := ...snip...
I'd appreciate getting the changed version back in the archive!
-Ralph