On 7/25/06, nobu / ruby-lang.org <nobu / ruby-lang.org> wrote:
> At Fri, 7 Jul 2006 23:18:13 +0900,
> <noreply / rubyforge.org> wrote in [ruby-core:08167]:
> > In the second case Bignum -1234567890 is not treated as an
> > unsigned decimal number.
>
> I think the latter would be a bug.

I'm curious, is there a reason why the former (number is converted,
but printed with leading '..') is not a bug? I can't see anything in
the documentation that indicates that those dots should be there...

Jacob Fugal