From: Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@...>
Date: 2012-01-28T22:53:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Microrant on Ruy's Math Skills

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On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Tony Arcieri <tony.arcieri@gmail.com>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.
>

lol, reminds me of http://twitter.com/#!/tpope/status/160389717244915712

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