http://www.smalltalk.org/versions/ANSIStandardSmalltalk.htmlalso see
http://smalltalk.gnu.org/wiki/ansi-smalltalk-98-errata

On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Lukas Renggli <[email protected]> wrote:

> > I'm stills doubtful about asFloatD/E/Q.
>
> I've never used these methods either, but they are part of the ANSI
> Standard. I think that having an accurate coverage of the standard is
> central to Pharo, even if this is not used from within Pharo itself.
>
> > Anyone has the ANSI Standard
> > specification?
>
> Ask Google. There is a draft of revision 1.9 online. I don't know if
> there are newer versions. Probably not.
>
> > I don't want to look at the old code to implement the new
> > and from the message names isn't clear to me what is supposed to do.
>
> #asFloatD/E/Q is the same as #asFloat. This is only meaningful for
> Smalltalk that support floats of different sizes.
>
> Cheers,
> Lukas
>
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