[squeak-dev] Floats

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Wed Oct 11 17:59:54 UTC 2017


On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 5:24 PM, Tobias Pape <Das.Linux at gmx.de> wrote:

> Hi all
>
> I'm a bit stumped…
>
> What is our canonical way to put a Float onto a (binary) stream?
> To be precise a IEEE754 double precision 64-bit float onto a stream, of
> which I only know that it is a binary one.
>
> I found ByteArray>>doubleAt:{put:}bigEndian:, but they have neither
> senders nor test _and_ it is not a stream.
>
> What do y'all use?
>

You write them as two words, like e.g. in DataStream>>writeFloat:.

- Bert -
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