Yes, Pharo is a bit ahead, I have a change in Squeak/inbox to align
Squeak printing...

Nicolas

Le 25 avril 2012 22:28, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> a écrit :
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> On 25.04.2012, at 13:20, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> The following code
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>> ((-10 to: 10) collect: [ :each | each * Float pi ])
>> =
>> ((((-10 to: 10) collect: [ :each | each * Float pi ])
>>       collect: [ :each | each asString])
>>               collect: [ :each | Float readFrom: each ])
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>> returns true on Pharo 1.4 and false on Squeak 4.3
>> Some of the Floats in the array compare equal, some not.
>>
>> Similary, (10 raisedTo: -100) asFloat
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>> prints as '1.0e-100' in Pharo and as ' 9.99999999999999e-101' in Squeak.
>>
>> I know that comparing Floats on equality is often dangerous and that #closeTo: is better.
>> But I would like to understand how there could be such a difference between the two.
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> If you use storeString instead of asString it will be the same. E.g.
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>        (10 raisedTo: -100) asFloat storeString
>        ==> '1.0e-100'
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> - Bert -
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