From: "Peña, Botp" <botp@...>
Date: 2002-12-28T13:23:24+09:00
Subject: Re: 1210 / 100 = 12? what?


Tom Sawyer [mailto:transami@transami.net] wrote:

> Sent: Friday, December 27, 2002 2:27 PM
> To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
> Subject: Re: 1210 / 100 = 12? what?
> 
> 
> no i didn't realize that. i thought ruby would automatically 
> change it to a 
> float if need be, i.e. with divison, just as it changes to 
> Bignum if need be.
> 
> honestly i don't like it. now i have to go around adding .0's 
> all over the 
> place to make sure the math comes out right. and in some 
> places i have to do 
> things like multiple by 1.0 b/c certain values come from cgi 
> script variables 
> i have no control over.

(though I'm late in the thread) I'm in agreement. I like Ruby since it's
supposed to be _closer_ to our minds ;-)

When I scribble on a division, I should not be needing to append ".0" :-(

Com'on, I thought we've passed thru 3GL langs (I admit I still love fortran
and c, but I have to grow :-)...

I'd like to introduce the "\" for integer division though :-)
 
> well, it will suffice now that i know, but to me it is 
> definitely not POLS.
 
> -tom

kind regards,
-botp