From: Nicolas Cellier <nicolas.cellier.aka.nice@gmail.com>

Subject: Re: [Pharo-dev] Floats problem with SIXX between Pharo and GemStone

Date: 26. Februar 2014 23:14:10 MEZ

To: Pharo Development List <pharo-dev@lists.pharo.org>

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2014-02-26 23:08 GMT+01:00 Nicolas Cellier <nicolas.cellier.aka.nice@gmail.com>:

That's exactly for this kind of reasons that I developped an ExtendedNumberParser connected to Number class>>readFrom:, to allow a variety of formats used in the rest of the world.

It would have been easy to allow upper letter exponents in this parser, but the class was considered superfluous and removed from Pharo 3.0...

super easy is just redefine:

ExtendedNumberParser>>exponentLetters

    ^'edqEDQ'

and then Float readFrom: '1.0000000000000000E-02' works as expected, that is in Squeak at least...