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Re: NSMutableNumber?


  • Subject: Re: NSMutableNumber?
  • From: Ondra Cada <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 15:07:49 +0200

On Monday, September 23, 2002, at 02:36 , Matthew Weinstein wrote:

Am I missing something or is there no "smart" number class.

Well, NSDecimalNumber is what I call very very smart ;)

By smart I mean one that can actually do math even of the type [num1 plus:
num2] or [num1 inc] or the like. It seems vital for many applications

No, not really. In case you are about to do heavy math, you should use plain C anyway for speed.

I'm surprised it doesn't leap off my cocoa browser!

If NSDecimalNumber did not leap off, blame CocoaBrowser, and consider using something reasonable, like MarhsmallowLibrarian. Or the ProjectBuilder itself, at worst: once it acquires indexes (yeah, it is a BIG howler that framework indexes are not available as soon as the appropriate framework is added to project!!!), it works reasonably well.

No offence to CocoaBrowser meant of course, it is just that I've downloaded it for a friend of mine, and found that it DOES NOT HAVE A FULLTEXT SEARCH?!? Well the browser part is nice enough (though cutting out just one method description is very very bad: showing the complete document and just scrolling it to the desired desc would be infinitely better, since the context is important too), BUT without searching it looks like a completely unuseable toy. Even the old NeXT HeaderViewer could fulltext search (albeit DigitalLibrarian was much better). Well if a majority of Cocoa developers use the thing, I can understand why such a number of trivial questions occurs in cocoadev!

If I've overlooked something (like that the thing has a fulltext search after all, and an option to show the complete document as God -- and, much more importantly, its writer -- meant), I do humbly apologize: truth is that I haven't played with it too long. Matter of factly, this entire message is just a result of a mild shock from those five minutes I did ;)
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Ondra Cada
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