Clojure

Reported by tomfaulhaber, Dec 28, 2008
The clojure.core/bigdec function truncates rationals to ints:

(bigdec 1/2) => 0M

As opposed to:

(bigdec 0.5) => 0.5M

This happens because rationals fall into the number? case in bigdec which
converts the rational to a long before converting to BigDecimal.

I'm not sure that this behavior is completely wrong (since there's no way
to specify the behavior of 1/3 in the current API, for instance), but we
should probably at least document it.


Comment 1 by jbondeson, Jan 30, 2009
I discussed this along with another issue here:
http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_thread/thread/1f8029b8556ce851/9b7538b192490097?lnk=gst&q=ratio#9b7538b192490097

(bigdec (/ 1 3)) should probably behave exactly like (/ 1M 3) which throws an
ArithmeticException unless you are inside a "with-precision" block.

I have attached a rather simple fix for this to have Ratio -> BigDecimal conversion
behave like this.
 bigdec-ratio.diff
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Comment 2 by richhickey, Feb 09, 2009
fixed in svn 1257 - thanks!
Status: Fixed