From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2011-01-11T15:00:46+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:34329] Re: ext/bigdecimal/lib/bigdecimal/util.rb

Hi,

I understand.  But let us separate issues: one that removes dependency
to util.rb (this one), and the other that add generic way to convert
numeric to bigdecimal.

							matz.

In message "Re: [ruby-core:34328] Re: ext/bigdecimal/lib/bigdecimal/util.rb"
    on Tue, 11 Jan 2011 14:15:23 +0900, Aaron Patterson <aaron@tenderlovemaking.com> writes:

|> I've wrote an another patch without requiring bigdecimal/util.rb.
|> 
|> https://gist.github.com/774012
|> 
|> If it doesn't have any problems, I'll commit tonight.
|
|This doesn't do what I want.  I want a generic way to convert Numeric
|types to BigDecimal.
|
|util.rb half-way implements Numeric => BigDecimal conversion.  See
|[ruby-core:34326] for examples.
|
|If you like, I can write tests along with a patch to demonstrate.  :-)