Class: ZeroDivide

• Inheritance
• Description
• Class protocol
  • initialization
  • instance creation
• Instance protocol
  • accessing
• Examples

Inheritance:

   Object
   |
   +--GenericException
      |
      +--Exception
         |
         +--Error
            |
            +--ProceedableError
               |
               +--ExecutionError
                  |
                  +--ArithmeticError
                     |
                     +--DomainError
                        |
                        +--ZeroDivide

Package:

stx:libbasic

Category:

Kernel-Exceptions-Errors

Version:

rev: 1.12 date: 2019/05/27 12:51:49

user: cg

file: ZeroDivide.st directory: libbasic

module: stx stc-classLibrary: libbasic

Description:

Raised when a division by zero is attempted.

To get the (in our oppinion: invalid) behavior of some programming languages such as JavaSript,
which do not report division by zero exceptions,
use the following code:

    ZeroDivide ignoreIn:[ x / 0.0 ] 

i.e.    
    ZeroDivide ignoreIn:[ 1.0 / 0.0 ] 
returns +Inf,   
and
    ZeroDivide ignoreIn:[ -1.0 / 0.0 ] 
returns -Inf instead.    

Class protocol:

 initialize

 dividend: aNumber

[
(ZeroDivide dividend:10) raise
] on:ZeroDivide do:[:ex |
self assert:ex dividend == 10
].

[
10 / 0
] on:ZeroDivide do:[:ex |
self assert:ex dividend == 10
].

Instance protocol:

 defaultResumeValue

return +/- infinity here, if ever proceeded

 dividend

Return the number that was being divided by zero.

Examples:

    |divisor|

    divisor := 0.
    Transcript showCR: ( 5 / divisor ).

    |divisor|

    divisor := 0.
    [
        Transcript showCR: ( 5 / divisor ).
    ] on:ZeroDivide do:[
        Transcript flash.
    ]

    |divisor|

    divisor := 0.
    Transcript showCR: (ZeroDivide ignoreIn:[ 5 / divisor ])

    |divisor|

    divisor := 0.
    Transcript showCR: (ZeroDivide ignoreIn:[ -5 / divisor ])

    |divisor|

    divisor := 0.
    Transcript showCR: (ZeroDivide ignoreIn:[ 0 / divisor ])