> Instead of continuing on the old thread "A question about numbers and > representation", I decided to open a new thread avout BigDecimal to see if > we can come to closure on that separately. > > Digging a bit more into Ruby, and how it handles floating point reveals that > there is in fact no automatic fluent transition to BigDecimal. All floating > point calculations are performed with the native double representation on > the platform ruby is executing on. Since Puppet does not create any > BigDecimal numbers no one has ever been able to create a value with higher > precision in Puppet than what the native double provides (unless doing so in > custom Ruby functions I should add).
So wow, this never worked? I can't say I'm surprised. I wonder if there are any real world cases where people have done this in ruby plugins. ken. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-dev/CAE4bNTku7SsjA7XA_nSTjopYKcyO6bVb7GQz-Gm5tO_xPR_9xA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
