From: Just Another Victim of the Ambient Morality <ihatespam@...>
Date: 2007-12-05T14:40:02+09:00
Subject: Re: I consider this a bug in Ruby...


"botp" <botpena@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:c39f93e00712042008h64b633ebj3413fc8b9dc7410b@mail.gmail.com...
> On Dec 5, 2007 7:40 AM, Just Another Victim of the Ambient Morality
> <ihatespam@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> RangeError: bignum too big to convert into 'long'
>
> possible bug. bignum is really too big for long :)
>
>>     Why is there any "converting" to do?  How can this not work?
>
> range is expensive.
> try numeric step,
>
> irb(main):010:0> r=1_000_000_000_000
> => 1000000000000
> irb(main):011:0> r.step(r*10,r){|x| p x}
> 1000000000000
> 2000000000000
> 3000000000000
> 4000000000000
> 5000000000000
> 6000000000000
> 7000000000000
> 8000000000000
> 9000000000000
> 10000000000000
> => 1000000000000
> irb(main):012:0>

    In what way is Range expensive?  Why is it so expensive?
    Thank you...