[Rock-dev] floating point infinity ruby

[Sylvain Joyeux]

On 08/15/2013 10:52 AM, Leif Christensen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> in base/types_ruby/lib/base/float.rb I stumbled upon this definition of
> Infinity:
>
> 1 if !defined?(Infinity)
> 2     Infinity = 1e200 ** 200
> 3 end
>
> I have a somewhat bad feeling about this. Seems there is a constant
> defined since ruby 1.9.2 (Float::INFINITY) and also a class BigDecimal
> for that?
Did not know about Float::INFINITY. BigDecimal is irrelevant here, we
want to be able to transpose NaN and Infinity from Ruby to C++

Just assign the constant to Float::INFINITY in master, since master does
not have to keep compatibility with 1.8

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