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3.10 Other packages

Various other “minor” packages are provided, typically as examples of writing modules for GNU Smalltalk (see Linking your libraries to the virtual machine). These include:

Complex

which adds transparent operations with complex numbers

GDBM

which is an interface to the GNU database manager

Digest

which provides two easy to use classes to quickly compute cryptographically strong hash values using the MD5 and SHA1 algorithms.

NCurses

which provides bindings to ncurses

Continuations

which provides more examples and tests for continuations (an advanced feature to support complex control flow).

DebugTools

which provides a way to attach to another Smalltalk process and execute it a bytecode or a method at a time.