Status: Accepted
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Labels: Importance-Low
New issue 3876 by [email protected]:
SqNumberParserTest>>testFloatGradualUnderflow has an odd condition
http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=3876
SqNumberParserTest>>testFloatGradualUnderflow has an odd condition:
In the following code, note that #areLowercaseDigitsAllowed is expected to
return nil or notNil:
"Parse the number in base 16 if possible - it is impossible if lowercase
letter are allowed digits
due to exponent letter ambiguity."
float := self areLowercaseDigitsAllowed
ifNil: [SqNumberParser parse: '16r2.D2593D58B4FC4e-256']
ifNotNil: [trueFraction asFloat].
but #areLowercaseDigitsAllowed returns true or false and in the 1.2 image
it returns true ... implying that is impossible to parse?
As it stands the `trueFraction asFloat` expression is always executed ...
I'm trying to port SqNumberParser to GemStone and this little section of
code is misleading, especially considering that GemStone doesn't pass the
test:)
