From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: fac41,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public From: fjh@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson) Subject: Re: OO, C++, and something much better! Date: 1997/01/24 Message-ID: <5caqvh$k8a@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 211934618 references: <5c4ita$3qs@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> <32E6C381.855@spork.niddk.nih.gov> organization: Comp Sci, University of Melbourne newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.object Date: 1997-01-24T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: John Kuszewski writes: >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. My apologies for spreading misinformation. I do wish to point out, however, that in the quotes above someone edited out the rather important part where I said that the quoted story was all rumour and that I wasn't sure how much of it was true. -- Fergus Henderson | "I have always known that the pursuit WWW: | of excellence is a lethal habit" PGP: finger fjh@128.250.37.3 | -- the last words of T. S. Garp.