From: dblack@...
Date: 2002-12-27T16:48:49+09:00
Subject: Re: 1210 / 100 = 12? what?

Hi --

On Fri, 27 Dec 2002, Tom Sawyer wrote:

> On Thursday 26 December 2002 11:44 pm, Milan Maksimovic wrote:
> >  Hey, no reason for panic.
> >
> >  class Fixnum
> >    def / ( rightSide )
> >      return self.to_f / rightSide
> >    end
> >  end
> >
> >  puts "#{1210 / 100}" --> 12.1
>
> now THAT's what i love about ruby!
>
> very nice solution :-)

Be careful with it, though, as it changes the behavior globally and
might cause unexpected behavior in libraries you use (or in other
people's code if they use a library where you've done this).


David

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