From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2003-03-22T04:37:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie question: 9/5=1 ?

Paul Brannan wrote:
> 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?

I guess extension writers should not rely on 1/2 == 0 .