From: "Bartosz Dziewoński" <matma.rex@...>
Date: 2012-04-14T06:46:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Why doesn't Fixnum#to_d exist?

It does exist, but it's in a separate file - bigdecimal/util or utils,
if I remember correctly. (I'm on my mobile, can't check.)

2012/4/13, Mark Campbell <nitrodist@gmail.com>:
> http://stdlib.rubyonrails.org/libdoc/bigdecimal/rdoc/index.html
>
>>  String#
>>    to_d      ... to BigDecimal
>>
>>  Float#
>>    to_d      ... to BigDecimal
>>
>>  Rational#
>>    to_d      ... to BigDecimal
>
> These all exist... why not for Fixnum#to_d? Right now I'm having to write a
> mixin on Fixnum, something like this:
>
> class Fixnum
>   def  to_d
>     BigDecimal(self.to_s)
>   end
> end
>
> The above code is *very* similar to what has been written for Float and
> String.
>
> Is there a reason why this doesn't exist on Fixnum? I'm currently using
> 1.8.7.
>


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