Hi Eliot, Quoting Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda@gmail.com>:
Hi Juan,
On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 9:40 AM, J. Vuletich (mail lists) <juanlists@jvuletich.org> wrote:
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.
 What happens if you try compiling a method containing a literal Fraction and both debug it and decompile it.Â
The attach shows that in ST-80 a CompiledMethod can contain a Fraction literal. Source code form for that is '1e-3'. Debugger works as in Squeak or Cuis.
Also check these comments from Dan:
http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2000-March/013368.htm...
 Dan doesn't say anything about Fraction literals in this message.
He does talk about scientific notation '1e3' and '1e-3' meaning not Float, but SmallInteger and Fraction. The subject of this thread is "Float parsed as Fraction bug". Â
I don't think this is a bug at all.
 What, that 1e-3 is a Fraction, not a Float?  Yes. That, and allowing for Fraction literals in methods.
BTW, Cuis also supports 1r111111111111 = 12 after this :)
Cheers, Juan Vuletich
