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<p style="color: #AAAAAA; margin-top: 10px;">Am 21.07.2020 15:07:01 schrieb Marcel Taeumel <marcel.taeumel@hpi.de>:</p><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div id="__MailbirdStyleContent" style="font-size: 10pt;font-family: Arial;color: #000000">
Hi Fabio.<div><br></div><div>From an object-oriented perspective, it would be nice to get "some instance" when asking a class in the system for #someInstance. :-)</div><div><br></div><div>As it is now, I have to start writing a little lookup table with "class == SmallInteger ifTrue: [ .... ]" to lookup exemplary instances for some classes in the system.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Marcel<br><div><br></div><div><br></div><div class="mb_sig"></div>
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<p style="color: #AAAAAA; margin-top: 10px;">Am 21.07.2020 14:53:31 schrieb Fabio Niephaus <lists@fniephaus.com>:</p><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 2:24 PM Marcel Taeumel <<a href="mailto:marcel.taeumel@hpi.de">marcel.taeumel@hpi.de</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width: 1px;border-left-style: solid;border-left-color: rgb(204,204,204);padding-left: 1ex;min-width: 500px"><div id="gmail-m_-1249618653276569828__MailbirdStyleContent" style="font-size: 10pt;font-family: Arial;color: rgb(0,0,0)">Hi all!<div></div><div><br></div><div>Why is "SmallInteger someInstance == nil"?</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Because SmallIntegers are immediate and cannot be instantiated (`SmallInteger new` fails). This implies:</div><div><br></div><div>"SmallFloat64 someInstance == nil"</div><div>"Character someInstance == nil"</div><div><br></div><div>Why would you want someInstance of SmallInteger anyway?</div><div><br></div><div>Fabio</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width: 1px;border-left-style: solid;border-left-color: rgb(204,204,204);padding-left: 1ex;min-width: 500px"><div id="gmail-m_-1249618653276569828__MailbirdStyleContent" style="font-size: 10pt;font-family: Arial;color: rgb(0,0,0)"><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Marcel</div></div><br>
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