From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2004-01-28T23:10:11+09:00
Subject: Re: float types

Hi,

In message "float types"
    on 04/01/28, elathan@phys.uoa.gr <elathan@phys.uoa.gr> writes:

|Shouldn't: 
| 
|if (TYPE(arg1) == T_FLOAT) 
| 
|be true when someone passes '42' (for example) and not '42.0'. 

No, Ruby C API do not processing mathematics.  It handles structure of
data.  It doesn't care whether integer 42 can be seen as float in
math.

|I have foo(double i); and I check the passed arguments. I expect the 
|right ruby implementation to accept a foo(42) call. 

As Guy stated, call rb_Float() before invoking foo(double);

							matz.