From: Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@...>
Date: 2012-01-23T19:45:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Microrant on Ruy's Math Skills

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On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 4:40 AM, Robert Klemme
<shortcutter@googlemail.com>wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Peter Vandenabeele
> <peter@vandenabeele.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Peter Vandenabeele <
> peter@vandenabeele.com
>
> >> Feature request:
> >>
> >> Based on this discussion, it would actually be useful to me if I could
> >> shorten this:
> >>
> >>   amount = BigDecimal.new("15.5")
> >>
> >> to
> >>
> >>   amount = 15.5B
>
> Bad idea IMHO because this requires a parser change and also makes all
> programs implicitly require "bigdecimal" which is usually not needed.
>
> > Maybe
> >
> > 15.5D
> >
> > is better naming (maps to "Decimal" and the %d of format string).
>
> Or
>
> amount = 15.4.to_bd
> amount = 15.4.to_decimal
> amount = 15.4.to_dec
> amount = BD(15.4)
>
>
But this forces it to go through a float which is where the inaccuracies
come in.

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