From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2009-04-13T07:28:21+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:23186] Re: [Bug #1336] Change in string representation of Floats

Hi,

In message "Re: [ruby-core:23181] Re: [Bug #1336] Change in string representation of Floats"
    on Sun, 12 Apr 2009 03:53:12 +0900, Brent Roman <brent@mbari.org> writes:

|I'd prefer that Float#to_s => rounded, Float#inspect => non rounded
|(i.e. 0.9.inspect => "0.8999999999")

I see several people who prefer that way.  Could you elaborate the
reason behind the preference?  Considering being to_s for mere string
representation, and inspect being human readable string
representation, I thought other way around.

							matz.