Ruby on Rails

Colin Law wrote in post #970616:
> On 25 December 2010 00:37, Peter Vandenabeele <lists@ruby-forum.com>
> wrote:
...
>> I am not in favor of D because it silently changes the class
>> of the result and this violates the principle of least surprise.
>> If you want Rational, use it from the start then.
>
> For D there is no reason why the class of the result needs to change
> to Rational. It could stay as BigDecimal but internally store the
> data as a Rational.

Ah, I see. I had not thought it that way.

Thanks,

Peter

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