From: Roger Pack <rogerdpack@...>
Date: 2009-08-04T22:25:09+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:24740] Re: About An Imaginary Number Literal (Translation)

> Matz suggested introducing an imaginary number literal to ruby. After
> his new patch is applied, we can use the following syntax:
>
> �2i
> �2.0i

Was this feature requested by someone? Will it be used?

One thought would be to allow for people to specify "any one character
ascii suffix" and let them [define or redefine set ones], too.
i.e.
2.0i => 2.0.i
2.0x => 2.0.x

Then you could define
2.0bd # big decimal
?
=r