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> On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 8:34 AM, bb <bblochl <at>
arcor.de> wrote:
> > I found that there are some Float-Subclasses:
> > FloatD
> > FloatE
> > FloatQ
> > How can I use them and what are they good for?
> > I do not understand the use of
> > LargeZeroInteger
> > as well.
>
> Squeak does not have these classes. In fact, most Smalltalks do not,
> even though it is part of the ANSI standard. The only numeric classes
> that are part of the regular image are Float, Fraction and Integer,
> with its subclasses LargePositiveInteger, LargeNegativeInteger, and
> SmallInteger. There are other numeric classes out there, such as
> Complex, but these are the ones that get used by everybody.
>
> It has been a while since I have used VisualWorks. It has a fixed
> decimal number, in addition to the ones I just mentioned. But I don't
> think it has the subclasses of Float, either.
>
> -Ralph Johnson
>