From: Steve Klabnik <steve@...>
Date: 2012-01-24T03:14:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Microrant on Ruy's Math Skills

> Even that and the '1.1'.to_dec option mentioned elsewhere seem pretty
> cumbersome when working with a lot of numbers.  How difficult would it be
> to change the way Ruby parses 1.1 within a given program so it just
> automatically uses BigDecimal rather than Float?  That way, one could
> just tell Ruby to use BigDecimal instead of Float by default at the top
> of the program file and go forward confident that Float errors will not
> creep into the program (unless using a library that explicitly uses
> floating point numbers within itself).

Parse time is different than execution time.