[Seaside] RE: Seaside 3.0 in Visual Works 7.7.1

[Julian Fitzell]

Hi Liliana,

I'm afraid I don't specifically know the answer to that. You may find
you have better luck posting your question on the VW-Dev or VW-NC
mailing lists, but some of the Cincom developers also read this list,
so you may get an answer anyway...

Julian

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Ivan, Liliana <Liliana.Ivan at rmb.co.za> wrote:
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> From: Ivan, Liliana
> Sent: 22 February 2011 09:36
> To: 'seaside at lists.squeakfoundation.org'
> Cc: 'Smalltalk Support'
> Subject: Seaside 3.0 in Visual Works 7.7.1
>
> Hi
>
> The package Grease-Namespace that is loaded by Seaside-All 3.0-7
> turns on IEEE floating point arithmetics:
>
> Parcel: #('Grease-Namespace')
> PrintStringCache: (3.0 - 3,mlucas-smith)
> Version: 3.0 - 3
> Post-Load Block:
>                 [:package | ObjectMemory registerObject: true withEngineFor: 'IEEEFloatingPointPrimitives']
>
> We are in the process of upgrading our app from VW 7.6 to 7.7.1 and we require division by 0 to raise an exception rather than returning INF.
> We turned this back off by executing:
>
> ObjectMemory registerObject: false withEngineFor: 'IEEEFloatingPointPrimitives'
>
> The web site passes all our unit and selenium tests; so we'll leave it turned off - I just wanted to ask :
> 1. why was it enabled - which parts of seaside require it
> 2. how/when can it affect us if it's turned off
>
> Thanks
>
>
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