From: Johann Hibschman <johann@...>
Date: 2001-05-09T04:11:24+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:14878] Re: Integer division oddness

YANAGAWA Kazuhisa writes:

> require "mathn" and you have not only Rational but Complex :-)

>> irb -r mathn
>     irb(main):001:0> 1/2+2/3
>     Rational(7, 6)
>     irb(main):002:0> Complex(1, 1)/Complex(1, 2)
>     Complex(Rational(3, 5), Rational(-1, 5))

The problem with this is that it would break all other modules which
require 1/2 to produce 0, wouldn't it?  That's one of my big misgivings
about the ability to easily redefine the methods of global system
classes like this.  It may work for one file, but it conflicts with
everything else.

This should be the default, not an optional module.

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Johann Hibschman                           johann@physics.berkeley.edu