[rspec-users] any tricks re using " eql(5.5)", but where 5.5 is a decimal not float?

[Mark Wilden]

On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Pat Maddox <pergesu at gmail.com> wrote:

> "Greg Hauptmann" <greg.hauptmann.ruby at gmail.com> writes:
>
> Do you mean BigDecimal?  Anyway, you should probably be using == instead
> of eql.
>
> >> 5.5 == BigDecimal.new('5.5')
> => true
> >> 5.5.eql? BigDecimal.new('5.5')
> => false
>
> eql? is object identity and is generally not what you're after.
>

Yeah, but

>> BigDecimal('5.5').eql? BigDecimal('5.5')
=> true

So it's either creating value objects (like Symbol) or BigDecimal.eql?
doesn't do object equality.

What's interesting is that you can create BigDecimals this way (without
calling new). You can do it with Strings, too.

>> String('asdf')
=> "asdf"

But not everything:

>> Hash(:a => 5)
NoMethodError: undefined method `Hash' for #<Object:0x3799c>
    from (irb):12

As Johnny Carson used to say, "I did not know that."

///ark
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