From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-04-19T10:57:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Bug in Rational?

Hi,

In message "Bug in Rational?"
    on 03/04/19, "Chris Pine" <nemo@hellotree.com> writes:

|This *can't* be right:
|
|  irb(main):001:0> require 'rational'
|  true
|  irb(main):002:0> a = Rational.new(1,2)
|  Rational(1, 2)
|  irb(main):003:0> b = Rational.new(1,3)
|  Rational(1, 3)
|  irb(main):004:0> Rational.new(a,b)
|  Rational(0, 0)

I don't call this a bug, but a pitfall behavior. ;-)

Rational() requires integers, so it converts rationals to integers;
thus 1/2 => 0, 1/3 => 3.  I will ask Keiju about this behavior.  He
might want to change.

							matz.