[Newbies] Float variableWordSubclass

[Ben Coman]

Levente Uzonyi wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Jan 2012, Ben Coman wrote:
>
>> When I define...
>>   Float subclass: MyPrefixFloat
>
> I guess you meat Float subclass: #MyPrefixFloat .
>
>>
>> why does it get changed to...
>>   Float variableWordSubclass: #MyPrefixFloat
>
> Float is already a variableWordSubclass, so its subclasses must also 
> be variableWordSubclasses, otherwise the indexable slots would be lost.
>
>>
>> and is that just what the Epsilon symbol next to the class is?
>
> What Epsilon symbol?
>
Epsilon - the letter of the Greek alphabet used in maths.
But doh!  I should have said "summation" symbol
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summation