Re: [Pharo-dev] summary of "float & fraction equality bug"

On 11/10/2017 4:42 PM, Florin Mateoc wrote: > On 11/10/2017 4:18 PM, Nicolas Cellier wrote: >> >> >> 2017-11-10 20:58 GMT+01:00 Martin McClure <mar...@hand2mouse.com >> <mailto:mar...@hand2mouse.com>>: >> >> On 11/10/2017 11:33 AM, raffaello

Re: [Pharo-dev] summary of "float & fraction equality bug"

On 11/10/2017 4:18 PM, Nicolas Cellier wrote: > > > 2017-11-10 20:58 GMT+01:00 Martin McClure >: > > On 11/10/2017 11:33 AM, raffaello.giulie...@lifeware.ch > wrote: > > Doing only

Re: [Pharo-dev] summary of "float & fraction equality bug"

On 11/10/2017 9:39 AM, Florin Mateoc wrote: > I think we should also mention that the literal 0.1 is not the number in base > ten that we all learned in school, despite > both using base 10 for printing and despite both being printed the same way - > this is the crux of

Re: [Pharo-dev] summary of "float & fraction equality bug"

I think we should also mention that the literal 0.1 is not the number in base ten that we all learned in school, despite both using base 10 for printing and despite both being printed the same way - this is the crux of the problem. But there is such a number in the system, called ScaledDecimal,

Re: [Pharo-dev] Inconsistent number comparison?

On 5/27/2015 1:29 PM, Nicolas Cellier wrote: 2015-05-27 14:24 GMT+02:00 Sean P. DeNigris s...@clipperadams.com mailto:s...@clipperadams.com: Nicolas Cellier wrote Also because it's good to know that 1/10 ~= 0.1 Why? It's an implementation detail. #= unlike #== is IIUC

Re: [Pharo-dev] String#adaptToNumber:andSend:

, stepharo wrote: Hi florin I agree with you. If you have some cycles to propose a fix we would be delighted. Stef Le 25/5/15 19:24, Florin Mateoc a écrit : On 5/25/2015 6:02 AM, stepharo wrote: The problem is that while the intention was nice 5 + (1 to: 10) could make sense, its side effects

Re: [Pharo-dev] String#adaptToNumber:andSend:

On 5/26/2015 9:38 AM, Marcus Denker wrote: On 26 May 2015, at 14:51, Florin Mateoc fmat...@gmail.com mailto:fmat...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Stef, I think this one's easy, especially for Pharo. Since apparently it was Etoys, not Morphic, that was or is using the strings and numbers mixed

Re: [Pharo-dev] String#adaptToNumber:andSend:

On 5/25/2015 6:02 AM, stepharo wrote: The problem is that while the intention was nice 5 + (1 to: 10) could make sense, its side effects are worse. Stef I don't think there is anything wrong with your example, which is about vector operations and which I think make sense (I would have

Re: [Pharo-dev] Program visualisation

Hi Thierry, On 10/9/2014 4:52 PM, Thierry Goubier wrote: I'm currently on a medium to long term quest to learn in depth / maybe improve the AST automatic generation in SmaCC; it should give me a core foundation (a common API for the ASTs for all langages that SmaCC can parse) to build upon

Re: [Pharo-dev] Program visualisation

Hi again, On 10/7/2014 2:42 PM, Thierry Goubier wrote: Hi Florin, I've changed the header for our discussion :) good idea :) Le 07/10/2014 05:29, Florin Mateoc a écrit : Hi Thierry, Thanks for pointing it out. It is indeed interesting, but not what I had in mind. I am not talking

Re: [Pharo-dev] About ways to participate in community and general negativity

Hi Thierry, On 10/4/2014 5:32 PM, Thierry Goubier wrote: I do have specific tools I can use in such circumstances that you don't have. What kind of tools? I would be interested in learning about them and the analysis use cases

Re: [Pharo-dev] About ways to participate in community and general negativity

Hi Thierry, On 10/6/2014 9:37 AM, Thierry Goubier wrote: Hi Florin, you're in for some interesting questions :) First, I did not have a methodology for finding the issue (or explaining the algorithm) when I started, and I didn't have one afterwards; you need to look into the WhyLine

Re: [Pharo-dev] About abuse of inheritance

On 7/22/2013 8:44 AM, Igor Stasenko wrote: On 22 July 2013 14:13, Florin Mateoc fmat...@gmail.com wrote: I also liked the debate, so before it closes I want to throw my 2 cents in: I don't think this is an issue about inheritance (vs composition), it is one about multiple inheritance or lack

Re: [Pharo-dev] About abuse of inheritance

...@gmail.com On 22 July 2013 15:13, Florin Mateoc fmat...@gmail.com wrote: On 7/22/2013 8:44 AM, Igor Stasenko wrote: On 22 July 2013 14:13, Florin Mateoc fmat...@gmail.com wrote: I also liked the debate, so before it closes I want to throw my 2 cents in: I don't think