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From: John Kuszewski <johnk@spork.niddk.nih.gov>
Subject: Re: OO, C++, and something much better!
Date: 1997/01/22
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Don Harrison wrote:
> 
> Fergus Henderson writes:
> 
> :I don't know how it got its start there, but I have heard that it got a
> :bit of a boost after the stockmarket crash in '87.  Apparently the
> :volume of shares traded was very high, and many financial programs
> :failed, because the numbers involved were so large that they overflowed
> :various limits, but the Smalltalk programs kept running, because
> :Smalltalk quietly switches to using floating point arithmetic when
> :integer arithmetic overflows.
> 
> That's a worry.

That's not a worry--that's just wrong.  Smalltalk quietly switches
to a LargeInt object when integers overflow.  The guys who write 
Smalltalk environments aren't idiots.

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