On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 2:56 PM, werner kassens <wernerk740@gmail.com> wrote:
... What is missing in Pharo at the moment: - multiple dispatch - arbitrary precision float ...
Hi Serge, there exists an arbitrary precision float package made by nicolas cellier: https://code.google.com/p/arbitrary-precision-float/wiki/ArbitraryPrecisionF...
Great to know such a beast exist ;-)
ok, its not builtin into pharo, but this is not really a problem, one uses those things more for crosschecking, where speed is not really a problem. re multiple dispatch, actually this was the first and most important thing i found missing when i discovered pharo ,squeak, smalltalk. otoh there exists a package that does this; if i remember correctly the name is helvetica. i read the papers about that package but never downloaded that package essentially for two reasons: - i'm a speed freak and feared this would slow down my programs too much. i thought this is something that should indeed be hard coded. - although, if i remember correctly, this package _is downloadable, it was in a way deeply hidden in the internet (not in the usual places like smalltalkhub or squeaksource) as if the author did not really want it to be used by everybody for every task.
I never heard about this one. Regards, -- Serge Stinckwich UCBN & UMI UMMISCO 209 (IRD/UPMC) Help fight Ebola by joining the Computing for Ebola Challenge http://bit.ly/1oEdBag