From: David Masover <ninja@...>
Date: 2010-11-25T03:12:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.8 vs 1.9

On Wednesday, November 24, 2010 10:09:13 am Brian Candler wrote:
> If you don't like IEEE floating point, Ruby also offers BigDecimal and
> Rational.

And if you don't like Ruby's strings, there's nothing stopping you from 
rolling your own. There's certainly nothing stopping you from using binary 
mode (whether it claims to be ASCII or not) for all strings.