From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2002-12-21T12:57:39+09:00
Subject: Re: How to query FLT_MAX from Ruby code?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lyle Johnson" <lyle@users.sourceforge.net>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 7:17 PM
Subject: How to query FLT_MAX from Ruby code?


> I hope I'm not setting myself up for a Doh! moment...
> 
> Is there some way to determine (from Ruby code) the minimum and maximum 
> limits for Ruby Floats (i.e. along the lines of the C constants FLT_MIN, 
> FLT_MAX, DBL_MIN and DBL_MAX from the <limits.h> header file)?

Beats me. But if there's not, maybe there should be.
Time for an RCR? Something like Float::FLT_MAX etc.?

Hal