Number comparisons not transitive
By Paolo Bonzini - Posted on January 5th, 2009
Tagged:
| Project: | GNU Smalltalk |
| Component: | Base classes |
| Category: | bug |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | active |
Description
See http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=3374
a := 16rFFFFFFFFFFFFF81.
b := 16rFFFFFFFFFFFFF82.
c := a asFloat.
{a = b.
a = c.
b = c.}
gives
(false true true )
(should all be false).
To fix this one would need to define a separate generality for comparisons and arithmetic, and adjust hashes similarly.
