Hi Folks, Just tried Smalltalk-80 (actually Apple Smalltalk-80 running in Mini vMac). 1e-3 "printIt" (1/1000) 1e-3 class "printIt" Fraction 1e3 "printIt" 1000 1e3 class "printIt" SmallInteger This has always been the behavior in Squeak too. Also check these comments from Dan: http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2000-March/013368.htm... I don't think this is a bug at all. BTW, Cuis also supports 1r111111111111 = 12 after this :) Cheers, Juan Vuletich Quoting Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda@gmail.com>:
On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 9:05 AM, Levente Uzonyi <leves@elte.hu> wrote:
On Wed, 6 Aug 2014, Eliot Miranda wrote:
Hi Levente,
On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 11:43 AM, Levente Uzonyi <leves@elte.hu> wrote: Â Â Â On Wed, 6 Aug 2014, Eliot Miranda wrote:
      Hi All,         Squeak trunk also suffers from the Float parsed as a Fraction bug:
      1e-8 class Fraction       1.0e8 class Float
I'm not entirely sure about it being a bug. I've checked Squeak 3.8 (pre-SqNumberParser), and it also parsed that literal as a Fraction. If I want a Float, I can be explicit and use 1.0e-8.
IMO it very much *is* a bug. Â Smalltalk-80 has never supported Fraction literals. Â They're always written as division expressions. Â Fraction answers false to isLiteral. Â Just because it worked that way doesn't mean it was right. Â I suspect no one noticed. Â Allowing Fraction literals feels like a big change to me.
It's more like undefined behavior than a bug IMHO, though the lack of #isLiteral makes me think that the Fractions are not intentional. Interesting how Nicolas's SqNumberParser behaves the same way as the previous number parser in this case.
   I made a modified version of Fraction >> #printOn:base: which outputs the literal format if possible. The change "fixes" the debugger (note that itw was way less broken in Squeak than in Pharo    anyway).    The only drawback I found is that some fractions become a bit more "complex" when printed, e.g. 3/4 => 75e-2
OK, but is this the right fix? Â What does everybody think? Â Keep the language unchanged or add Fraction literals and add another incompatibility with other dialects?
I don't think that anyone ever used this "feature" before, so doing what other dialects do is probably the best way to resolve this.
 Agreed.  Smalltalk-80 v2 had no literal fractions.  ObjectWorks and VisualWorks have never had literal fractions.  I can't speak for other dialects, but I'm fairly sure none of the Smalltalk/V, Team/V lineage had literal Fractions either. Â
If Fractions are literals - what is the semantics of 1/0 (easy, it is not a literal, but needs to be stated)? - what is [1/0.1] on: ZeroDivide do: [:ex| #error] ? Â Is it 10.0 or #error, i.e. is 1/0.1 10.0 or 1 / 0 followed by the Integer 1?
I did not propose to make all fractions literals. My implementation simply prints decimal fractions with the exponent notation, e.g. 3/4 is printed as 75-e2, but 2/3 is still printed as (2/3).
Levente
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