Re: [Help-smalltalk] Fractions bug

[Stephen Compall]

On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 22:40 -0700, J Pfersich wrote:
> st> var5 printString !
> '3/4'
> st> var5 storeOn: stdout !
> (Fraction numerator: 3 denominator: 3)Fraction new "<0x1057dc0>"
> st>
> The numerator is also used as the denominator.

heh :)  See attachment.  (Paolo: fixed in
address@hidden/smalltalk--backstage--2.2--patch-4
"fix wrong varref in Fraction>>#storeOn:".)

> I also found that the class comment is inaccurate, the arithmatic operators
> do not answer a reduced fraction, the reduce private method is never accessed.

See the category 'arithmetic' method bodies.

st> ((3/4) * (2/3)) inspect!
An instance of Fraction
  numerator: 1
  denominator: 2

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