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Feature #12039

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Fixnum#infinite?/Bignum#infinite or Numeric#infinte, consistent with Float#infinite? and BigDecimal#infinite?

Added by ioquatix (Samuel Williams) about 8 years ago. Updated over 7 years ago.

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Target version:
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[ruby-core:73618]

Description

We have an issue where it is not easy to ask if a number is +ve or -ve infinity. https://github.com/rails/arel/issues/411

Both Float and BigDecimal do respond to infinite? but Integer derivatives don't. It sort of makes sense, since we don't have an infinity value for Fixnum/Bignum. However, it makes polymorphic code hard.

[13] pry(main)> Float::INFINITY.infinite?                                       
=> 1
[14] pry(main)> -Float::INFINITY.infinite?                                      
=> -1
[15] pry(main)> BigDecimal::INFINITY.infinite?                                  
=> 1
[16] pry(main)> -BigDecimal::INFINITY.infinite?                                 
=> -1

Given a Numeric value x, it would be nice to query if it is INFINITY or not. Propose adding a default implementation to Numeric, which always returns false or nil.


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Related to Ruby master - Feature #10641: Introduce Fixnum#finite? and Bignum#finite?ClosedActions
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