On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 2:56 PM, werner kassens <[email protected]> wrote: >>... What is missing in Pharo at the moment: >>- multiple dispatch >>- arbitrary precision float ... > > Hi Serge, > there exists an arbitrary precision float package made by nicolas cellier: > https://code.google.com/p/arbitrary-precision-float/wiki/ArbitraryPrecisionFloatForSqueakAndPharo
Great to know such a beast exist ;-) > ok, its not builtin into pharo, but this is not really a problem, one uses > those things more for crosschecking, where speed is not really a problem. > re multiple dispatch, actually this was the first and most important thing i > found missing when i discovered pharo ,squeak, smalltalk. otoh there exists > a package that does this; if i remember correctly the name is helvetica. i > read the papers about that package but never downloaded that package > essentially for two reasons: > - i'm a speed freak and feared this would slow down my programs too much. i > thought this is something that should indeed be hard coded. > - although, if i remember correctly, this package _is downloadable, it was > in a way deeply hidden in the internet (not in the usual places like > smalltalkhub or squeaksource) as if the author did not really want it to be > used by everybody for every task. I never heard about this one. Regards, -- Serge Stinckwich UCBN & UMI UMMISCO 209 (IRD/UPMC) Help fight Ebola by joining the Computing for Ebola Challenge http://bit.ly/1oEdBag
