[squeak-dev] The Trunk: Kernel-nice.1039.mcz

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Fri Oct 21 00:32:39 UTC 2016


The names Byte, HalfWord, Word, and DoubleWord sound good to me. The term
"double-byte" is commonly used with reference to strings.

Dave


On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 01:10:41PM -0700, Eliot Miranda wrote:
> Nicolas,
> 
>     I thought that there had been a conversation about this and that Bert
> had expressed a preference for DoubleByte and DoubleWord.  Hence I kept to
> that.  If I'm mistaken forgive me.  But personally I don't like HalfWord.
>  t's as ambiguous as word.  At least DoubleByte is not ambiguous.
> 
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 12:59 PM, <commits at source.squeak.org> wrote:
> 
> > Nicolas Cellier uploaded a new version of Kernel to project The Trunk:
> > http://source.squeak.org/trunk/Kernel-nice.1039.mcz
> >
> > ==================== Summary ====================
> >
> > Name: Kernel-nice.1039
> > Author: nice
> > Time: 20 September 2016, 11:00:27.302558 pm
> > UUID: b0aeabf6-f73d-44c4-be8b-d2c66a73486f
> > Ancestors: Kernel-bf.1038
> >
> > Introduce HalfWord (16 bits) and DoubleWord (64 bits) subclasses which are
> > possible in Spur format, but yet not exploited.
> >
> > =============== Diff against Kernel-bf.1038 ===============
> >



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