[Newbies] Float variableWordSubclass

[karl ramberg]

On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 7:04 PM, Levente Uzonyi <leves at elte.hu> wrote:

> On Thu, 5 Jan 2012, Ben Coman wrote:
>
>  Levente Uzonyi wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 4 Jan 2012, Ben Coman wrote:
>>>
>>>  When I define...
>>>>  Float subclass: MyPrefixFloat
>>>>
>>>
>>> I guess you meat Float subclass: #MyPrefixFloat .
>>>
>>>
>>>> why does it get changed to...
>>>>  Float variableWordSubclass: #MyPrefixFloat
>>>>
>>>
>>> Float is already a variableWordSubclass, so its subclasses must also be
>>> variableWordSubclasses, otherwise the indexable slots would be lost.
>>>
>>>
>>>> and is that just what the Epsilon symbol next to the class is?
>>>>
>>>
>>> What Epsilon symbol?
>>>
>>>
> There's no such thing in Squeak, so I don't know. Maybe you shoud ask it
> from Pharo users.
>
>
> Levente


I've seen it in OmniBrowser with RefactoringEngine.
I'm not sure of it's purpose.

Karl

>
>
>  Epsilon - the letter of the Greek alphabet used in maths.
>> But doh!  I should have said "summation" symbol
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Summation<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summation>
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