On 9-Jul-09, at 5:58 AM, Hernan Wilkinson wrote: > So, Stef, what do we do? :-) > I think we have discussed very interesting things is this thread. My > conclusions are:
> 4) Go back to how things were +1 Frankly I think you could reuse '==' for the *exact* compare between two items in the Number hierarchy and leave '=' as the yes they are *equal* but not the same.... then you could really rummage about and fix/explain/justify why 29347921734912734927349279273499274 == (29347921734912734927349279273499274-1+1) is false and explain why in the same manner as saying (1/10) == 0.1 is false, & resolve why 0.1 == (0.1-0.01+0.01) is false yet 10 == (10-1+1) is true. And yes people do things like use '==' for numbers, for the strangest reasons. -- = = = ======================================================================== John M. McIntosh <[email protected]> Twitter: squeaker68882 Corporate Smalltalk Consulting Ltd. http://www.smalltalkconsulting.com = = = ======================================================================== _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
