ScaledDecimals are certainly not much used in Kernel. There were none in st80. But they are ANSI.
Their main purpose is to ease implementation of financial apps and avoid round off errors of Floating point operations. You should ask if they are used in Seaside first. Now, re-implementing ScaledDecimals from scratch is not an heavy task. ScaledDecimals are essentially Faction with special printOn:. Nicolas 2009/5/16 Adrian Lienhard <[email protected]>: > Hi Yoshiki, > > On May 15, 2009, at 20:52 , Yoshiki Ohshima wrote: >> >> Does Pharo have ScaledDecimal and it is used? If so, that would be >> the biggest piece that would be removed. There wouldn't be any >> serious bugs that would cause major trouble otherwise. > > I checked and ScaledDecimal is not used in Pharo. So should be easy to > remove. (There are a few instances in the image but from literals in > tests, and there are no methods called from the core that instantiate > ScaledDecimals.) > > Adrian > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
