Hi guys, In Pharo 2.0, the expression "Number readFrom: '2.5850009999999998e+04' " would answer 25850.01 , but in Pharo 3.0 it answers: 2.5850009999999997 which is a kind of WTF to me.
Checking the differences it seems in Pharo 2.0 ExtendedNumberParser (used from Number >> readFrom: ) implemented: allowPlusSign ^true However, in Pharo 3.0 it seems subclasses of NumberParser have been merged directly in NumberParser class (and so Number >> readFrom: uses this class now). But.. (and this is the difference), NumberParser implements: allowPlusSign ^false So I wonder...was this on purpose or a side effect? Why would we want to reject using + as part of the exponential notion?? So in my case now I must do an override to: NumberParser >> allowPlusSignInExponent ^ true Thoughts? -- Mariano http://marianopeck.wordpress.com
