<Alexander at Lazarevic.de> wrote:To: <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>


> With the new updates I opened a browser, went to class Preferences and
> got an "At least
> one digit expected here" error immediately.
>  
> PS: Hey, no joke! Even if it is all fools day! :)

I can confirm this bug.
Here is a quick problem description and attached you
find a proposal for a fix.

To remove the bug, you can revert to an earlier version of
method
Number class> readRemainderOf:from:base:withSign:

The new version of this method, which came with change
set #5844 (ANSICompatibility) stumbles over the denotation
'1d' in  ',f1dPref'
The reason is  that in ANSI, the character $d can follow
a digit in denotations like:  1d2 (This is the denotation
of a Float in FloatD representation).

One can easily conclude that something is wrong with
the ANSI support for floats and I think the method
mentioned above can be improved,

*but* ...

for the bug you saw there is a better fix:
We read stylished text with method 
RunArray class>>scanFrom:
Look at this method. To read a font number,
 we use (Number readFrom: strm)

God in heaven! Number class>>readFrom:
is for floats and here we *know* that we have to read
integers. When you replace all the
(Number readFrom: strm)  with (Integer readFrom: strm)
you will get the integers without running into problems
with ANSI floats. I think this is the correct fix and
ANSI support is a different topic.

Hope this helps,
Boris
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