RE: Entering a fixed point number at the st> prompt causes divide by zero error. Is this the expected behavior. Please see below for integer, floating point, scaled decimal, and fixed point entries.

[Mark Bratcher]

What version of gst are you running? I running 3.2.91, and I get:

 

st> 1.1 “fixed point”

1.1

 

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From: Gary Highberger
Sent: Monday, January 4, 2021 3:59 PM
To: help-smalltalk
Subject: Entering a fixed point number at the st> prompt causes divide by zero error. Is this the expected behavior. Please see below for integer, floating point, scaled decimal, and fixed point entries.

 

st> 1 "integer"

1

st> 1.1e0 "floating point"

1.1

st> 1.1s2 "scaled decimal"

1.10s2

st> 1.1 "fixed point"

Object: 1 error: The program attempted to divide a number by zero

ZeroDivide(Exception)>>signal (ExcHandling.st:254)

SmallInteger(Number)>>zeroDivide (SysExcept.st:1426)

Fraction>>setNumerator:setDenominator: (Fraction.st:485)

Fraction class>>numerator:denominator: (Fraction.st:66)

Fraction>>- (Fraction.st:151)

FloatD(Float)>>printOn:special: (Float.st:533)

FloatD(Float)>>printOn: (Float.st:436)

FloatD(Object)>>printString (Object.st:534)

FloatD(Object)>>printNl (Object.st:571)