Misc #15978: Deprecate FIXNUM_MIN and FIXNUM_MAX

• Status: Rejected
• Assignee: -

[robertomiranda (Roberto Miranda)]

[shyouhei (Shyouhei Urabe)]

• Status changed from Open to Feedback

Can you tell us why? We only expose these constants into C and there are fixnums in C. Usages of them are seen in the wild, for instance https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/blob/master/ext/pg_text_decoder.c
I fail to see any reason to deprecate.

[robertomiranda (Roberto Miranda)]

Yeah sure basically for consistency, now that Bignum and Fixnum classes have been deprecated in favour of Integer. I think that FIXNUM_MIN and FIXNUM_MAX should be deprecated and replaced for something that reflects that ruby has a single class for integers. I was thinking something like INTEGER_MAX and INTEGER_MIN

[naruse (Yui NARUSE)]

• Status changed from Feedback to Rejected

robertomiranda (Roberto Miranda) wrote:

Yeah sure basically for consistency, now that Bignum and Fixnum classes have been deprecated in favour of Integer. I think that FIXNUM_MIN and FIXNUM_MAX should be deprecated and replaced for something that reflects that ruby has a single class for integers. I was thinking something like INTEGER_MAX and INTEGER_MIN

I doubt such consistency is worth breaking compatibility.

And though Fixnum and Bignum is vanished from Ruby world, they are still alive in C world of Ruby implementation.