[Newbies] Float variableWordSubclass

[Tobias Pape]

Am 2012-01-07 um 20:00 schrieb karl ramberg:

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> On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 7:04 PM, Levente Uzonyi <leves at elte.hu> wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Jan 2012, Ben Coman wrote:
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> Levente Uzonyi wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Jan 2012, Ben Coman wrote:
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> When I define...
>  Float subclass: MyPrefixFloat
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> I guess you meat Float subclass: #MyPrefixFloat .
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> why does it get changed to...
>  Float variableWordSubclass: #MyPrefixFloat
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> Float is already a variableWordSubclass, so its subclasses must also be variableWordSubclasses, otherwise the indexable slots would be lost.
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> and is that just what the Epsilon symbol next to the class is?
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> What Epsilon symbol?
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> There's no such thing in Squeak, so I don't know. Maybe you shoud ask it from Pharo users.
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> Levente
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> I've seen it in OmniBrowser with RefactoringEngine.
> I'm not sure of it's purpose.

AFAIK,  it is an indicator that the class inherits from Magnitude.
It is present in omnibrowsers.

Best
	-Tobias