<br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/3/20 Damien Cassou <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:damien.cassou@gmail.com">damien.cassou@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
2009/3/20 Göran Krampe <<a href="mailto:goran@krampe.se">goran@krampe.se</a>>:<br>
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> Question: Is there anything stopping 3.9+ including Pharo to start using<br>
> SqNumberParser from Scanner>>xDigit?<br>
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</div>IIRC the only problem is with parsing non numbers like 'abc'.<br>
#readFrom: returns 0 whereas SqNumberParser throws an exception.<br>
<font color="#888888"></font></blockquote><div><br>Sure, but if compatibilty counts, it would be very easy to implement<br>Number class>>readFrom: aStream<br> ^SqNumberParser: parse: aStream ifFail: [^0]<br><br>
Apart a few weird edge cases, it would be roughly the same...<br>... just more exact (round to nearest Float) and faster.<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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