[Vm-dev] Re: [squeak-dev] Re: Float hierarchy for 64-bit Spur

Andres Valloud avalloud at smalltalk.comcastbiz.net
Fri Nov 28 00:24:40 UTC 2014


"Float" is also the name of an IEEE entity in a multitude of languages 
other than ours... if we needed to implement single precision floating 
point numbers, generally called "float", where would that fit?

On 11/21/14 10:08 , Eliot Miranda wrote:
> Good.  I think I'll go with
>
> Float
>    |
>    +------- BoxedDouble
>    |
>    +------- SmallDouble


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