From: Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>
Date: 2003-03-22T01:10:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie question: 9/5=1 ?

On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 04:05:42AM +0900, Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> Thomas Jollans wrote:
> >while learning ruby i wanted to program a simple fahrenheit to celsius 
> >converter. for that i need 9/5 to be 1,8 (and not 1). how do i do that 
> >in ruby?
> 
> irb(main):001:0> require 'mathn'
> true
> irb(main):002:0> 1/2
> 1/2

What happens if you do this from an extension?  Will it change the
behavior of other extensions without their knowledge?  Is that a good
idea?

Paul