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.

[Gary Highberger]

Mark,

I'm running version 3.2.5, it comes with the latest Ubuntu. Does 3.2.91
support pi? Just curious as a few Smalltalk examples I've seen imply pi
support.

Thank you for getting back to me. I'll investigate further and report my
findings.

Gary Highberger

On Mon, Jan 4, 2021, 7:25 PM Mark Bratcher <mdbratch@gmail.com> wrote:

> What version of gst are you running? I running 3.2.91, and I get:
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> st> 1.1 “fixed point”
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> *From: *Gary Highberger <gary.highberger@gmail.com>
> *Sent: *Monday, January 4, 2021 3:59 PM
> *To: *help-smalltalk <help-smalltalk@gnu.org>
> *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.
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> st> 1 "integer"
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> st> 1.1e0 "floating point"
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> 1.1
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> st> 1.1s2 "scaled decimal"
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> 1.10s2
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> st> 1.1 "fixed point"
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> Object: 1 error: The program attempted to divide a number by zero
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> ZeroDivide(Exception)>>signal (ExcHandling.st:254)
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> SmallInteger(Number)>>zeroDivide (SysExcept.st:1426)
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> Fraction>>setNumerator:setDenominator: (Fraction.st:485)
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> Fraction class>>numerator:denominator: (Fraction.st:66)
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> Fraction>>- (Fraction.st:151)
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> FloatD(Float)>>printOn:special: (Float.st:533)
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> FloatD(Float)>>printOn: (Float.st:436)
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> FloatD(Object)>>printString (Object.st:534)
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> FloatD(Object)>>printNl (Object.st:571)
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