On 10/30/2016 09:45 AM, stepharo wrote:
I'm favor to deprecate round: too.
Thanks you all for your analysis. I will reread the thread carefully
to learn.
Hi Stephane,
just to sum up my arguments:
1. Floats & Fractions represent almost the same thing, hence they should
have the same API! iow if Float>>round: is deprecated it should imo also
be deprecated in Fractions. and i dont see what is gained by generally
deprecating every #round: (eg i like to use it). if it is because you
want to have a small image, i'd guess, one could put ScaledDecimal in
its own package (as long as there are no dependencies of numbers on it
introduced) and have an image without that. the memory gain would be
bigger & imo the usability loss smaller.
2. most decimals are not representable as Floats. Ok, so what? pi is not
representable too, you dont deprecate Float>>pi because of that, right?
werner
