On Nov 19, 2014, at 3:24 PM, "David T. Lewis" <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 08:12:50PM +0000, commits at source.squeak.org wrote:
>> Eliot Miranda uploaded a new version of Kernel to project The Trunk:
>> http://source.squeak.org/trunk/Kernel-eem.883.mcz
>> 
>> ==================== Summary ====================
>> 
>> Name: Kernel-eem.883
>> Author: eem
>> Time: 19 November 2014, 12:12:39.345 pm
>> UUID: 2ccdf2d6-38ff-4d1a-87c8-c411b596a068
>> Ancestors: Kernel-nice.882
>> 
>> Add class inst vars to hold SmallInteger class>>minVal
>> and maxVal.  Add SmallInteger to the front of the
>> start-up list.  Update SmallInteger's class comment
>> with 64-bit info.
> 
> This is a very nice implementation, with a good class comment :)

Thanks, Dave.  I can't take any credit.  This is essentially how Smalltalk-80 V2 does it (burned in my brain from years ago).  But it was fun looking up quintillion :-)


> Dave