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Chris Cunningham csque0 at lycos.com
Wed Feb 4 22:35:25 UTC 2004


>> I'm writting a little app where I want to write out
>> (in readable format) a fraction, and then later 
>> read it back in.  At first, I thought I'd try 
>> converting the fraction to a string, and just write
>> that out.  Later, I would get that string, and just
>> send it #asNumber.  Interestingly, this doesn't work.

>> So:
>> (1/24) asString asNumber
>> returns an error (At least one digit expected 
>> here).  This is because the #asString puts 
>> parenthesis around the string.

...

>> For now, I will either create a new flavor of
>> Float>>readFrom: to handle the ()'s around the
>> number, or hack the current version in Float to
>> read this.  I'd be more than happy to modify 
>> Float>>readFrom: to take read this in and post it
>> as a [enh] if it is desired - I'm just not sure
>> that this is really the desired behaviour.

What I really meant to say here was Fraction - not Float.

-Chris


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