From: Tom Copeland <tom@...>
Date: 2005-04-30T06:52:14+09:00
Subject: Re: [PATCH] for [ #1823 ] NUM2UINT and rb_num2ull do not rase	RangeError for negative Fixnum

On Sat, 2005-04-30 at 06:41 +0900, Michael Schonberg wrote:
> All,
> 
> I submitted bug 1823 while anonymous CVS was unavailable; however, now
> that I can access CVS, I went ahead and applied the fix that I proposed
> and it works well with my extension.

When someone applies this, can they pls also close the bug here?

http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?
func=detail&aid=1823&group_id=426&atid=1698

Thanks much!

> It is simple enough to work around this problem in my extension;
> however, the fact that everything behaves so predictably is one of the
> aspects of writing Ruby extensions that impresses me the most. 

So true; Ruby extensions are a joy to write.  I especially appreciate
the little Array/Hash helpers - rb_ary_new, rb_hash_aref and all that.

Yours,

Tom