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Feature #17170

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Numeric.zero, Numeric.one

Added by foonlyboy (Eike Dierks) over 3 years ago. Updated over 3 years ago.

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Feedback
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Target version:
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[ruby-core:100014]

Description

Hi at the ruby team,

I'd like to suggest to enhance Numeric to provide two new class methods, which shall be: zero and one.

  • Integer.zero shall be equal to Integer(0)
  • Float.zero shall be equal to Float(0)
  • BigDecimal.zero shall be equal to BigDecimal(0)
  • Complex.zero shall be equal to Complex(0)

Likewise for one, you get the idea.

Numeric already provides #zero?, so Numeric.zero.zero? shall always be true.

I expect this to make code more explicit. And it would save a pair of braces.
(Don't laugh--This really got me here.)


Maybe you already considered that for 3.0, which would be a late addition.

Ruby shines in teaching mathematics. You know, we have zero and one there.

I use ruby in the financial realm. For me, it's important to write BigDecimal.zero.


I expect that the new API should not break existing code. We could try it with Rails first. Let's ask them.

It would be nice to have that in [Rails] 3.

~eike

Updated by shyouhei (Shyouhei Urabe) over 3 years ago

  • Status changed from Open to Feedback
% rbenv exec irb
irb(main):001:0> require 'bigdecimal'
=> true
irb(main):002:0> require 'bigdecimal/util'
=> true
irb(main):003:0> require 'complex'
=> false
irb(main):004:0> 0.to_i
=> 0
irb(main):005:0> 0.to_f
=> 0.0
irb(main):006:0> 0.to_r
=> (0/1)
irb(main):007:0> 0.to_c
=> (0+0i)
irb(main):008:0> 0.to_d
=> 0.0
irb(main):009:0> 0.to_d.class
=> BigDecimal
irb(main):010:0>

Do these methods work for you? They need no braces.

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Updated by sawa (Tsuyoshi Sawada) over 3 years ago

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