Magnitude

Magnitude Class

Magnitude is the superclass of all object classes that contain quantities.

Instance Methods

! (void)

When used as a prefix operator, overloads C’s ‘!’ operator in expressions that contain objects.

* (void)

When used as a prefix operator, overloads C’s ‘*’ dereference operator and returns the first element of an int, long int, long long int, or double array as an Integer, LongInteger, or Float object.

- (void)

Overloads the unary ‘-’ prefix operator. Returns the negated value of an Integer, LongInteger, or Float, receivers.

asCharacter (void)

Return an object with the receiver’s value as a Character object.

asFloat (void)

Return the value of an Integer or LongInteger receiver as a Float object. If the receiver is a Float object, returns the receiver. For all other classes, prints a warning and returns 0.0f.

asInteger (void)

Return an object with the receiver’s value as an Integer object.

asLongInteger (void)

Return an object with the receiver’s value as a LongInteger object.