From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2011-01-11T11:35:31+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:34321] Re: ext/bigdecimal/lib/bigdecimal/util.rb

Hi,

In message "Re: [ruby-core:34318] ext/bigdecimal/lib/bigdecimal/util.rb"
    on Tue, 11 Jan 2011 09:17:15 +0900, Aaron Patterson <aaron@tenderlovemaking.com> writes:

|It looks like ext/bugdecimal/lib/bigdecimal/util.rb is only
|conditionally required by bigdecimal.c:
|
|  https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/trunk/ext/bigdecimal/bigdecimal.c#L148-151
|
|Could we possibly change this to just require 'util.rb' all the time?

I'd rather like to remove the dependency of util.rb from the
bigdecimal core.

|Also, it looks like bigdecimal defines `to_d` on a few classes, but not
|itself.  It would be nice if we could call `to_d` on all Numeric
|objects as well as BigDecimal objects.

I agree with this patch, only when bigdecimal/util is explicitly
loaded.  In fact, I don't want to see no more to_x (x is any single
character) conversion methods in the core libraries.

							matz.