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Feature #13625

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BigDecimal short form / shorthand

Added by AaronLasseigne (Aaron Lasseigne) over 7 years ago. Updated over 6 years ago.

Status:
Rejected
Assignee:
matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Target version:
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[ruby-core:81535]

Description

Add a shorthand for creating a BigDecimal, similar to how 1.2r creates a Rational.

> 3.1d
=> #<BigDecimal:7fde9def71c0,'0.31E1',18(18)>
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 #1 [ruby-core:81973]

Updated by shyouhei (Shyouhei Urabe) over 7 years ago

  • Tracker changed from Bug to Feature

Let me mark this begin a feature request.

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 #2 [ruby-core:82528]

Updated by mrkn (Kenta Murata) over 7 years ago

Note that BigDecimal class is defined in a standard library, but it is not built-in.

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 #3 [ruby-core:84423]

Updated by mrkn (Kenta Murata) almost 7 years ago

  • Assignee set to matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
  • Target version set to 2.6
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 #4

Updated by naruse (Yui NARUSE) almost 7 years ago

  • Target version deleted (2.6)
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 #5 [ruby-core:87550]

Updated by mrkn (Kenta Murata) over 6 years ago

  • Status changed from Open to Rejected

BigDecimal is not a core class, so we cannot add such a syntax sugar.

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