Feature #13625: BigDecimal short form / shorthand

• Status: Rejected
• Assignee: matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
• Target version: -

[AaronLasseigne (Aaron Lasseigne)]

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

> 3.1d
=> #<BigDecimal:7fde9def71c0,'0.31E1',18(18)>

[shyouhei (Shyouhei Urabe)]

• Tracker changed from Bug to Feature

Let me mark this begin a feature request.

[mrkn (Kenta Murata)]

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

[mrkn (Kenta Murata)]

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

[naruse (Yui NARUSE)]

• Target version deleted (2.6)

[mrkn (Kenta Murata)]

• Status changed from Open to Rejected

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