[Newbies] Float variableWordSubclass

[Levente Uzonyi]

On Thu, 5 Jan 2012, Ben Coman wrote:

> 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?
>>

There's no such thing in Squeak, so I don't know. Maybe you shoud ask it 
from Pharo users.


Levente

> Epsilon - the letter of the Greek alphabet used in maths.
> But doh!  I should have said "summation" symbol
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summation
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