[Q] Comparison of SmallTalk Dialects

Dwight Hughes dwighth at ipa.net
Wed Jan 12 21:05:52 UTC 2000


"David N. Smith (IBM)" wrote:
> 
> I don't know of one, but having used several I can attest that while
> all are definitely Smalltalk even simple things can differ. For
> example, I was surprised that Squeak supports bases only up to 16,
> though IBM Smalltalk allows bases up to 36. On the other hand, I've
> never used any above 16...

You can enter numbers using any radix between 2 and 36 in Squeak too
(actually, you can make your radix as large as you want, but can only
represent the first 36 digits of the larger base).

-- Dwight





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