[ruby-core:23856] Re: Differences in Rational Between 1.8 and 1.9

Hi,

In message "Re: [ruby-core:23843] Differences in Rational Between 1.8 and 1.9"
    on Sun, 14 Jun 2009 06:34:43 +0900, Run Paint Run Run <[e-mail]> writes:

|1) 1.8 used the Rational::Unify constant to determine whether
|Rational(integer) should return a Fixnum or a Rational. 1.9 doesn't
|support this functionality.
|2) 1.8 had a #new! constructor that created a Rational without
|reducing its arguments; 1.9 doesn't appear to have an alternative.
|3) Rational#coerce tried to call #to_f on its argument on 1.8; it
|doesn't on 1.9.
|4) 1.8 had a Rational.allocate method that returned Rational(nil,
|nil). Given that this invocation is illegal under 1.9, and rational.c
|contains "rb_undef_method(CLASS_OF(rb_cRational), "allocate");", I
|assume it has been removed intentionally.
|5) Rational.reduce has been removed, presumably because Rational now
|automatically reduces. However, if #new!, or something similar, is
|reimplemented, would this be restored?
|6) Rational#to_s returns "n/d" and Rational#inspect returns "(n/d)".
|7) On 1.8 #inspect returned a string that could be eval'd to give
|self; it doesn't on 1.9.

All of above are intentional.  No need to file bug.  Most of them are
removing internal that need to be there to implement rational in Ruby.
6) and 7) are preparation for Rational literals, which is planned for
the future.

|8) There is no documentation. Would a patch be accepted, or is
|somebody working on this?

The patch will be accepted.  No one is working on, as far as I know.

|9) These changes, assuming intentionality, are not documented in
|doc/NEWS-1.9.1. Would a ticket to rectify this be appropriate?

Since they are considered by internal changes, it did not appear in
NEWS file.

							matz.