Re: Brin: basic is evil, why it must be eradicated

[Charlie Bell]

On 23/09/2006, at 1:11 AM, Klaus Stock wrote:

OTOH, consider the following Smalltalk code:
   x := 1 / 3.
   x := 3 * x.
   x inspect.

Common sense tells us that the result is 0.9999999 - but Smalltalk insists

on 1.

Um, .9* *is* 1.

Charlie
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