From: Kenta Murata <muraken@...>
Date: 2011-04-22T10:53:21+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:35845] Re: [Ruby 1.8 - Feature #4593] xmlrpc does not support bigdecimal

Hi,

On 2011���4���22������������ at 1:47, Alex Tambellini wrote:
> XMLRPC does not support bigdecimal.
> 
> See my pull request here to add support for bigdecimal type to xmlrpc library:
> 
> https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/13

A BigDecimal isn't generally a double precision number.
I'm worrying about that there isn't common consensus for treating a BigDecimal as double.

If you want to deal with a BigDecimal as a double in XMLRPC,
you can convert the BigDecimal to a Float using BigDecimal#to_f.

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Kenta Murata
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