[ruby-core:93498] [Ruby master Misc#15978] Deprecate FIXNUM_MIN and FIXNUM_MAX

[ruby-core:93498] [Ruby master Misc#15978] Deprecate FIXNUM_MIN and FIXNUM_MAX

[rjmaltamar]

Issue #15978 has been reported by robertomiranda (Roberto Mirand).

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Misc #15978: Deprecate FIXNUM_MIN and FIXNUM_MAX 
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/15978

* Author: robertomiranda (Roberto Mirand)
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
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[ruby-core:93507] [Ruby master Misc#15978] Deprecate FIXNUM_MIN and FIXNUM_MAX

[shyouhei]

Issue #15978 has been updated by 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.

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Misc #15978: Deprecate FIXNUM_MIN and FIXNUM_MAX 
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/15978#change-79070

* Author: robertomiranda (Roberto Miranda)
* Status: Feedback
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
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[ruby-core:93511] [Ruby master Misc#15978] Deprecate FIXNUM_MIN and FIXNUM_MAX

[rjmaltamar]

Issue #15978 has been updated by 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

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Misc #15978: Deprecate FIXNUM_MIN and FIXNUM_MAX 
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/15978#change-79073

* Author: robertomiranda (Roberto Miranda)
* Status: Feedback
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
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[ruby-core:93514] [Ruby master Misc#15978] Deprecate FIXNUM_MIN and FIXNUM_MAX

[naruse]

Issue #15978 has been updated by 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.

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Misc #15978: Deprecate FIXNUM_MIN and FIXNUM_MAX 
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/15978#change-79076

* Author: robertomiranda (Roberto Miranda)
* Status: Rejected
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
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