Ruby Issue Tracking System

02/16/2021

11:37 AM Ruby master Bug #17631: `Numeric#real?` incorrectly returns true for `NaN` and `INFINITY`

I think 'real' in this context just means 'not complex'. chrisseaton (Chris Seaton)

02/15/2021

01:38 PM Ruby master Bug #17630: '+' doesn't work correctly for some floats (x.07 + y.4 will give z.46999999999997 instead of z.47)

Did you read this?
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/#Floating-point-numbers chrisseaton (Chris Seaton)

02/10/2021

10:12 AM Ruby master Bug #17619: if false foo=42; end creates a foo local variable set to nil

> but why would a variable be created in a program-flow primitive ie (if etc) if that condition is such that that cod... chrisseaton (Chris Seaton)

10:03 AM Ruby master Bug #17619: if false foo=42; end creates a foo local variable set to nil

I think this is specified and intended behaviour.
https://github.com/ruby/spec/blob/7f0a098a57667ccf70f25aa82cb459... chrisseaton (Chris Seaton)

01/14/2021

02:34 AM Ruby master Feature #12607: Ruby needs an atomic integer

> In my experience financial transactions will be handled at the DB level.
So imagine you're implementing the DB t... chrisseaton (Chris Seaton)

01/13/2021

11:45 PM Ruby master Feature #12607: Ruby needs an atomic integer

> You can achieve something similar with Object.new.object_id
You may want them to be consecutive.
> Why atomic... chrisseaton (Chris Seaton)

09:45 PM Ruby master Feature #12607: Ruby needs an atomic integer

> What is the use case for this atomic integer?
For example for issuing unique IDs across multiple Ractors.
> o... chrisseaton (Chris Seaton)

01/06/2021

04:25 PM Ruby master Feature #17323: Ractor::LVar to provide ractor-local storage

I don't think there's a massive overlap there, and there's no many letters we could use. chrisseaton (Chris Seaton)

03:11 PM Ruby master Feature #17323: Ractor::LVar to provide ractor-local storage

> it shadows - implies MVAR, TVAR
I think that's the point isn't it? We have TVar (transactional), MVar (mutable),... chrisseaton (Chris Seaton)

01/04/2021

01:18 PM Ruby master Feature #17474: Interpreting constants at compile time

Another point to consider - does this have an impact on our ability to use optimisations such as lazy parsing and do ... chrisseaton (Chris Seaton)