From: Chad Perrin <code@...>
Date: 2012-01-24T08:13:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Microrant on Ruy's Math Skills

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 05:45:18AM +0900, Steve Klabnik wrote:
> No, it's not a terminology difference. That's why it won't work. You
> can't have some code execute to change how the parser works. Parse
> time happens before execution time.

Ruby is pretty dynamic.  It seems entirely reasonable to consider whether
Float could be redefined to dispatch to BigDecimal except when called
explicitly, for instance.

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