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From: nicolas cellier <ncellier@ifrance.com> Date: August 31, 2008 2:13:10 AM CEDT To: squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org Subject: [squeak-dev] Number readFrom: can we remove some "accidental" features Reply-To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list <squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org

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Strangely, Squeak Number class>>#readfrom: used to accept non Smalltalk syntax like: (Number readFrom: '.2') -> 0.2 . (Number readFrom: '2.e3') -> 2000.0 .

(See http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2006-April/103137.htm...)

Don't know if accidental or on purpose, but to me, this is wrong and I did not implement this behavior in SqNumberParser because there is no such official Smalltalk syntax to my knowledge.

Up to any one to accept an alternate number syntax by subclassing SqNumberParser.

Now I see that Dave Lewis (dtl) asserted this feature:

testAsNumberWithSuperfluousDecimalPoint | sd | sd _ '123.s2' asNumber. self assert: ScaledDecimal == sd class. self assert: sd scale == 2. self assert: '123.00s2' = sd printString.

I'd like to remove this feature. Is it ok?