From: Peter Vandenabeele <peter@...>
Date: 2012-01-29T03:30:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Microrant on Ruy's Math Skills

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On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 8:32 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.
>

+1 , assuming that is 100% backwards compatible with the current code.

It really is nothing more than a "macro" for

xxx.yyyD => BigDecimal.new("xxx.yyy")



>
> 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.
>

+1

But, I would actually prefer a 'G' like notation as default:

http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/391311

HTH,

Peter

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