[ENH] floatGlobals-ls
Andrew Tween
amtween at hotmail.com
Fri Sep 17 09:41:10 UTC 2004
> If [-(x+y)] is not proper Smalltalk code (and I'm sympathetic to the
> idea, simply to keep the grammer small), then I suggest we tweak the
> parser in a different way and have it recognize [-Infinity] as a single
> literal, just the way it does with [-3] or [-99.44]. This is also
> consistent with the Smalltalk strategy of having tremendously
> complicated literals in order to keep to keep the syntax simple.
Another option is to change the printString for [Infinity negated] to be
'NegativeInfinity', and to create a NegativeInfinity global.
Which is consistent with the naming of the class variables in Float
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