From: Christoph <chr_news@...>
Date: 2002-05-31T01:24:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Infinity (?!)


"Dossy" <dossy@panoptic.com> wrote in
....
> Considering that Ruby is an OO language, the fact that the
> implementation is so tightly coupled to the underlying architecture
> surprises me.

Maybe you are right - the closeness of Ruby's Numeric classes  to
ordinary C-arithmetic is possibly the root cause for some of the
``numerical inconsistencies''?

> Just as true, false and nil are instances of TrueClass, FalseClass
> and NilClass, I would have assumed infinity to be an instance of
> Number, along with NaN being an instance of Number as well.
> Or, something like that.

You can find an implementation for a ``something like" class in the
thread [ruby-talk:13315].

/Christoph