Re: [Newbies] I don't get it

2011-06-27 Thread Trygve Reenskaug
Bert, Thank you for bringing this message to my attention. I am on the squeak-...@lists.squeakfoundation.org, but only read a few of its messages since so few are about object orientation as Alan defined the term. May be people have difficulties with class based languages because they are not

[Newbies] asInteger bug?

2011-06-27 Thread bb
There I found a problem with asInteger: According to the x3j20 ansi standard FloatasInteger and DoubleasInteger should be equivalent to sending rounded. You can download the final draft revision for free: wiki.squeak.org/squeak/uploads/172/standard_v1_9-indexed.pdf. I tried that in squeak 4.2:

[Newbies] Re: asInteger bug?

2011-06-27 Thread nicolas cellier
bb bblochl at arcor.de writes: There I found a problem with asInteger: According to the x3j20 ansi standard FloatasInteger and DoubleasInteger should be equivalent to sending rounded. You can download the final draft revision for free:

Re: [Newbies] I don't get it

2011-06-27 Thread Casey Ransberger
Comments inline. On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 3:05 AM, David Corking li...@dcorking.com wrote: Erlis wrote: Now I think I start understanding Jim statement, basically the statement is: Smalltalk (the language) adopted the classical way of OO instead the prototype way, so I don't have all

Re: [Newbies] Re: asInteger bug?

2011-06-27 Thread Jerome Peace
Currently #asInteger truncates. There is a method in Number#detentBy: detent atMultiplesOf: grid snap: snap Map all values that are within detent/2 of any multiple of grid to that multiple. Otherwise, if snap is true, return self, meaning that the values in the dead zone will never be