Very first steps in a Workspace window


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Last updated at 9:58 am UTC on 21 March 2019

(after configuring the UI)

Open a Workspace.
You may do this with the world menu. You get that menu by clicking on the desktop.
Then choose the second entry 'Workspace'.

Type

 3+4.

Select with mouse / right-click / print-it
or Cmd-P

Type

 1 class

then "print it"

Type

 1 class class

then "print it"

Type

 1 class browse

then "do it"

Type

   100 factorial

then "print it"

 93326215443944152681699238856266700490715968264381621468592963895217599993229915608941463976156518286253697920827223758251185210916864000000000000000000000000

Note: You get this result because Squeak has a subclasses of Integer to deal with large integer values.

You may check this by asking for the class name for this integer object

 3326215443944152681699238856266700490715968264381621468592963895217599993229915608941463976156518286253697920827223758251185210916864000000000000000000000000 class

The answer

 LargePositiveInteger

So for example

 26 ** 40

      397131118389635994560666234198316439032157304558637285376

The same with a keyword message

 26 raisedTo: 40
      397131118389635994560666234198316439032157304558637285376

Type

   #(3 2 5 65 -1) asSortedCollection

then "print it"

Then "Save and quit". This keeps the UI configuration and maintains the state of opened windows.

See also
Hello World programs
Open a Workspace with content
Diophantine equation example (calculate with large integers)

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