2008/8/31 Stéphane Rollandin <lecteur at zogotounga.net>:
> nicolas cellier a écrit :
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>> Strangely, Squeak Number class>>#readfrom: used to accept non Smalltalk
>> syntax like:
>> (Number readFrom: '.2') -> 0.2 .
>> (Number readFrom: '2.e3') -> 2000.0 .
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>> Now I see that Dave Lewis (dtl) asserted this feature:
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>> I'd like to remove this feature.
>> Is it ok?
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> I would vote for allowing those formats.
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My guess it can stay, but only as separate helper method, which reads
a numbers and expecting non-smalltalk syntax.
And making sure that this behavior is completely separated from compiler!

> Stef
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