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From: rowen@blake.acs.washington.edu (Russell Owen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: Smalltalk/V Mac bug
Message-ID: <5119@blake.acs.washington.edu>
Date: 20 Dec 89 22:35:31 GMT
Reply-To: rowen@blake.acs.washington.edu (Russell Owen)
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On my Mac Plus, Smalltalk/V mis-computes // with negative integers.
For example, it claims -3 // -1 = -3
One side effect is that negative-going intervals don't work
(because their size is typically mis-computed as zero).

Digitalk was very nice about it. They apologized for the bug,
and say they'll try to have it fixed in a month.
They also say it does NOT affect the 68020/68030 version
(which may explain how it escaped attention for so long).
Meanwhile, us Plus and SE owners are stuck, because the // method
isn't actually called, // is done via in-line code instead.

I hope they fix this. Mostly I like /V and it's been pretty solid.

Russell Owen
owen@phast.phys.washington.edu
owen@uwaphast.bitnet

P.S. anybody want to start a Smalltalk/V Mac mailing list?
Let me know and I'll send you a list. (Internet or bitnet
addresses preferred, but if you give me some hints I'll
try to get through via UUCP).