[ruby-core:85998] [Ruby trunk Bug#14587] math library functions should NOT raise exceptions

Issue #14587 has been updated by Anon92929 (Anon Ymous).


This just represents another way that the mentality of the Ruby programmers seems "sticky", to me. 

No implicit conversion of int to string!!! We REFUSE to attempt .to_s automatically, and we INSIST on wasting everyone's time with this silly bug, forever!!!

Oh, you need to cast to a long decimal format? NOPE SORRY your code is broken now because "." is not technically a number, go spend a day trying to figure it out sucker! Your github issue has been CLOSED!!!

Is this how the ruby devs and community intend to win over new young coders? By making a language where everything breaks, there's no logical remediations even attempted, and you can't even trust simple MATH LIBRARIES not to halt your codebase on every version update?

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Bug #14587: math library functions should NOT raise exceptions
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/14587#change-70861

* Author: Anon92929 (Anon Ymous)
* Status: Rejected
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
* Target version: 
* ruby -v: 
* Backport: 2.3: UNKNOWN, 2.4: UNKNOWN, 2.5: UNKNOWN
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BigDecimal, Integer, Float, none of these should raise exceptions, but they should all fail SILENTLY or return NaN during error cases. 

See: https://github.com/ruby/bigdecimal/issues/95

I shouldn't have to go fix every possible way that BigDecimal might throw a breaking change in a thousand places in my codebase. I need math libraries that DON'T BREAK!!!





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