From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2009-06-11T02:44:54+09:00
Subject: Re: [Security] Ruby 1.8.6-pl369 released

Hi,

In message "Re: [Security] Ruby 1.8.6-pl369 released"
    on Thu, 11 Jun 2009 01:55:07 +0900, Charles Oliver Nutter <headius@headius.com> writes:

|> 1.9.2 BigDecimal#to_f produces Inf for too big numbers.  I am not sure
|> what we can do for BigDecimal#to_i yet.
|
|So Inf is official behavior then? I'm in process of at least getting
|JRuby up to 1.9.x behavior for these cases.

Yes, if it doesn't cause any serious issue.

|Perhaps we can examine the size of the exponent for to_i to determine
|whether it's within a reasonable range?

Could be, if we can define "reasonable range".

							matz.