From: Philip Ross <phil.ross@...>
Date: 2008-03-30T22:29:20+09:00
Subject: Has Rational.new! intentionally been made private?

The recent changes to implement Rational as a built-in C class have
resulted in the documented Rational.new! method becoming private. Is
this an intentional change, or will new! be made public again?

The reason I ask is that my TZInfo library makes use of Rational.new!
for performance reasons. Calling Kernel#Rational is too expensive
because of call to Rational.reduce, so I pre-reduce the required
Rationals and initialize them with Rational.new!.

Thanks,

Phil

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Phil Ross
http://tzinfo.rubyforge.org/ -- DST-aware timezone library for Ruby