From: Chad Perrin <code@...>
Date: 2012-01-28T04:46:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Microrant on Ruy's Math Skills

On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 04:32:14AM +0900, Tony Arcieri wrote:
> I think the real path forward here would be to propose that BigDecimal is
> loaded by default in Ruby 2.0, and to propose some type of literal
> representation for them, such as 1.1D that was suggested before.
> 
> The thing that stops people from using BigDecimal right now is the
> inconvenience of doing BigDecimal("1.1"), and the output of BigDecimal#to_s
> and #inspect is difficult to interpret.

Use BigDecimal#to_s('F') to get something that looks like "1.1" (instead
of BigDecimal#to_s with no arguments, which gives you something that
looks like "0.11E1").  Of course, that "to_s('F')" is a pain in the
fourth point of contact to type with any regularity.

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Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]