From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2008-05-21T17:14:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Why doesn't Float() work the same as Integer()?

Hi,

In message "Re: Why doesn't Float() work the same as Integer()?"
    on Tue, 20 May 2008 11:30:12 +0900, "Eric I." <rubytraining@gmail.com> writes:

|First, Float() and Integer() work like Ruby itself.  In Ruby code you
|can hardcode integer literals using 17 (dec), 021 (oct), or 0x11
|(hex).  But you can only hardcode floating point literals using base
|ten.  Admittedly, that's a bit of a punt since you'll probably ask why
|Ruby works that way.

Because most of us would have hard time to guess how much 0x11.4 is.
Besides that, I don't see any usecase for converting hexadecimal
(integer) representation directly into float values.

							matz.