[Newbies] Re: Float-Subclasses?

[karl ramberg]

There was a ScaledDecimal class in Squeak before the licence change, afaik.
Karl

On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 8:34 PM, nicolas cellier <
nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ralph Johnson <johnson <at> cs.uiuc.edu> writes:
>
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 8:34 AM, bb <bblochl <at> arcor.de> wrote:
> > > I found that there are some Float-Subclasses:
> > > FloatD
> > > FloatE
> > > FloatQ
> > > How can I use them and what are they good for?
> > > I do not understand the use of
> > > LargeZeroInteger
> > > as well.
> >
> > Squeak does not have these classes.  In fact, most Smalltalks do not,
> > even though it is part of the ANSI standard.  The only numeric classes
> > that are part of the regular image are  Float, Fraction and Integer,
> > with its subclasses LargePositiveInteger, LargeNegativeInteger, and
> > SmallInteger.  There are other numeric classes out there, such as
> > Complex, but these are the ones that get used by everybody.
> >
> > It has been a while since I have used VisualWorks.  It has a fixed
> > decimal number, in addition to the ones I just mentioned.  But I don't
> > think it has the subclasses of Float, either.
> >
> > -Ralph Johnson
> >
>
> VW has Float = FloatE and Double = FloatD, but no FloatQ.
> Beside, it has SmallDouble = optimized FloatD in case of limitefd exponent.
>
> Smalltalk-X has the three classes.
>
> Dolphin only has Float = FloatD if I remember well.
>
> VA ?
>
> I also checked about asInteger, VW does the same as Squeak, truncate, and I
> think it is inherited directly from st-80.
> Being both Smalltalk-80 and ANSI is somehow a bit uncompatible, though I'm
> not
> sure Smalltalk-80 is normative...
>
> Nicolas
>
>
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