Re: complex and rational

On Mar 17, 2008, at 10:44 PM, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

> |Before I start doing the documentation for the
PickAxe, could I just
> |double check: Rational and Complex are now built-in
classes. Is  
> that a
> |permanent change?
>
> Unless something bad happens.

I was wondering if perhaps you were eventually going to work
it the  
same way that Continuation works--have the code in there but
dormant,  
and then activate it when you require the Ruby components
complex.rb  
and rational.rb. As is stands, it seems strange to have half
of each  
of these classes permanently available, but the other half
getting  
loaded on a 'require'.


Dave

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:38:55PM +0900, Dave Thomas
wrote:
> I was wondering if perhaps you were eventually going to
work it the  
> same way that Continuation works--have the code in
there but dormant,  
> and then activate it when you require the Ruby
components complex.rb  
> and rational.rb. As is stands, it seems strange to have
half of each  
> of these classes permanently available, but the other
half getting  
> loaded on a 'require'.

Do you feel the same way about 'thread' and 'time'?

Paul