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The "traits float" bug 2020/1 (Patreon)

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2020-01-19 22:21:28

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2026-06

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The "traits float" bug 2020/1

Here is update from the development of tinySelf, my pet programming language inspired by Smalltalk and Self. When I was adding new methods to primitive types, I've encountered a nasty bug. The bug was caused by sharing primitive method objects for all instances of float (and int, bool and other primitive data types).