From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2012-12-10T14:27:16+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:50727] Re: [ruby-trunk - Feature #7517] Fixnum::MIN,MAX

Hi,

In message "Re: [ruby-core:50708] [ruby-trunk - Feature #7517] Fixnum::MIN,MAX"
    on Sun, 9 Dec 2012 21:07:37 +0900, "mame (Yusuke Endoh)" <mame@tsg.ne.jp> writes:

|Still, I'm not sure what problem (in mruby?) is resolved by the existence of Fixnum::MAX. 
|
|How:
|
|  n3 = n1 + n2
|  raise "unboxed" if n3 > Fixnum::MAX
|
|differs from:
|
|  n3 = n1 + n2
|  raise "unboxed" if !n3.instance_of?(Fixnum)
|
|?  Just easier to read?

For cases like the following:

  printf "integers %d .. %d are unboxed\n", Fixnum::MIN, Fixnum::MAX

you don't have to create Fixnum instances.

							matz.