From: Haoqi Haoqi <axgle@126.com>
Date: 2007-04-30T14:46:08+09:00
Subject: LONG2NUM vs LONG2FIX

what's the difference about "LONG2NUM and LONG2FIX" in ruby c api?
why not "return LONG2FIX after FIX2LONG"??
thanks.

ruby source file(numeric.c):
/*
 *  call-seq:
 *     fix.abs -> aFixnum
 *
 *  Returns the absolute value of <i>fix</i>.
 *
 *     -12345.abs   #=> 12345
 *     12345.abs    #=> 12345
 *
 */

static VALUE
fix_abs(fix)
    VALUE fix;
{
    long i = FIX2LONG(fix);

    if (i < 0) i = -i;

    return LONG2NUM(i);
}

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