Some "progress" on my Tau in Ruby patch

Its category was changed from "core" to "joke" :(... How does the quote go? "First they ignore your patch, then they classify it as a joke, then... " I forget the rest ;)

"Once τ is widely accepted in these communities, we might add it..."

But also:

"...if it were just up to me, I'd add it just to show support. It's a rather tiny and harmless addition."

See the ticket here.

Tau in Ruby

Inspired by http://bugs.python.org/issue12345 and of course The Tau Manifesto, here is a patch for ruby to define tau, the true circle constant. Of course we don't need to really need to patch ruby to get this functionality (but I had fun doing it anyway).

Here is tau.rb so you can just require 'tau'. (Maybe this should be a gem...) Ps, I just learned about module_function.

Update 1: I made this ticket which has been mostly ignored.


Update 2: Ticket has been noticed and discussed! :) Ticket has been categorised as joke! :(


Update 3: Some active debate is going on now and the ticket is now 'assigned'! :) See the details.


Update 4: (28-Jun-2014) Made a pull request in Github.


Update 5: See https://github.com/jneen/math-tau/