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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: donh@syd.csa.com.au (Don Harrison) Subject: Re: OO, C++, and something much better! Date: 1997/01/23 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 211640297 sender: news@syd.csa.com.au x-nntp-posting-host: dev50 references: <32E6C381.855@spork.niddk.nih.gov> organization: CSC Australia, Sydney reply-to: donh@syd.csa.com.au newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.object Date: 1997-01-23T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: John Kuszewski writes: : ...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. Presumably LargeInts are integers implemented as two words rather than one? Sounds reasonable. :The guys who write :Smalltalk environments aren't idiots. No doubt you're right. There are few genuine idiots. :) Don. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Don Harrison donh@syd.csa.com.au