YAML's handling of Bignum's in 1.8.4
Ron M
be an implementation detail of how many bits it takes to
overflow into a Bignum.
It seems for interoperability with other languages that
use yaml, it'd be very nice to hide this detail and
simply show the (possibly large) integer value, as
it appears 1.8.2 did.
=============with 1.8.4=============
=> true
irb(main):003:0> puts [1,1<<200].to_yaml
- 1
- !ruby/object:Bignum 1606938044258990275541962092341162602522202993782792835301376
=> nil
=============with 1.8.2=============
irb(main):014:0> puts [1, 1<<200].to_yaml
---
- 1
- 1606938044258990275541962092341162602522202993782792835301376
=> nil
Eric Hodel
> Is there any reason why 1.8.4's YAML exposes what seems to
> be an implementation detail of how many bits it takes to
> overflow into a Bignum.
>
> It seems for interoperability with other languages that
> use yaml, it'd be very nice to hide this detail and
> simply show the (possibly large) integer value, as
> it appears 1.8.2 did.
Seems to be platform-specific:
$ uname -a
Darwin kaa.coop.robotcoop.com 8.5.0 Darwin Kernel Version 8.5.0: Sun
Jan 22 10:38:46 PST 2006; root:xnu-792.6.61.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Power
Macintosh powerpc
$ ruby -v -ryaml -e 'puts [1, 1<<200].to_yaml'
ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [powerpc-darwin8.4.0]
---
- 1
- 1606938044258990275541962092341162602522202993782792835301376
$ uname -a
FreeBSD sandbox.robotcoop.com 4.10-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE #0:
Wed Feb 23 15:47:08 CST 2005 root@fbsdbootload:/usr/obj/usr/src/
sys/theplanet i386
$ ruby -v -ryaml -e 'puts [1, 1<<200].to_yaml'
ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i386-freebsd4]
---
- 1
- !ruby/object:Bignum
1606938044258990275541962092341162602522202993782792835301376
(same for FreeBSD 5.4 and 6.0)
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