Re: [boost] [rational] Can the community maintenance team and/or rational users please review some pull requests?

Subject: Re: [boost] [rational] Can the community maintenance team and/or rational users please review some pull requests?
From: John Maddock (jz.maddock_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-03-30 14:15:35

> If I understand correctly, cpp_rational is constructible from double 
> but rational isn't? It is documented, so it's ok, but it may still 
> confuse some users.
>
Correct.  Conversion works in the multiprecision case because someone 
asked for it, and the integers are large enough that we shouldn't have 
to worry about overflow etc.  In the non-multiprecision case, there are 
plenty of doubles which can't be converted to a rational of (built in) 
integers.  And of course (possibly 128 bit) long doubles are even more 
of an issue.

John.