[#23231] What do you think about changing the return value of Kernel#require and Kernel#load to the source encoding of the required file? — =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Wolfgang_N=E1dasi-Donner?= <ed.odanow@...>

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8 messages 2009/04/17

[#23318] [Feature #1408] 0.1.to_r not equal to (1/10) — Heesob Park <redmine@...>

Feature #1408: 0.1.to_r not equal to (1/10)

19 messages 2009/04/26

[ruby-core:23319] Re: [Feature #1408] 0.1.to_r not equal to (1/10)

From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2009-04-26 16:56:05 UTC
List: ruby-core #23319
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Heesob Park <redmine@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
>
> $ ruby -e 'p 0.1.to_r'
> (3602879701896397/36028797018963968)
>
> whereas
>
> $ ruby -e 'p "0.1".to_r'
> (1/10)

What, in theory, could be done about this? By the time to_r is
invoked, 0.1 is already a binary float, with the implicit rounding
off.

martin

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