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authorMaciek Rząsa <maciejrzasa@gmail.com>2022-07-28 14:30:10 +0200
committergit <svn-admin@ruby-lang.org>2022-09-25 16:51:17 +0900
commit8e2c42518355f3e29f5693de9034fb66a2abbdaf (patch)
treee91c0d7cdc952a4ff4ffba2f2651d0095f1591e9 /ext/bigdecimal
parent81b919ce5c85a82d68de9ccaebd5036adef8c7fb (diff)
[ruby/bigdecimal] Improve documentation of BigDecimal#sign
Fixes https://github.com/ruby/bigdecimal/issues/78 by describing behaviour for positive and negative zero in the docs. https://github.com/ruby/bigdecimal/commit/5415b120ab
Diffstat (limited to 'ext/bigdecimal')
-rw-r--r--ext/bigdecimal/bigdecimal.c6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/ext/bigdecimal/bigdecimal.c b/ext/bigdecimal/bigdecimal.c
index b3ef70a2c9..06c8251cc2 100644
--- a/ext/bigdecimal/bigdecimal.c
+++ b/ext/bigdecimal/bigdecimal.c
@@ -3606,8 +3606,10 @@ BigDecimal_limit(int argc, VALUE *argv, VALUE self)
/* Returns the sign of the value.
*
- * Returns a positive value if > 0, a negative value if < 0, and a
- * zero if == 0.
+ * Returns a positive value if > 0, a negative value if < 0.
+ * It behaves the same with zeros -
+ * it returns a positive value for a positive zero (BigDecimal('0')) and
+ * a negative value for a negative zero (BigDecimal('-0')).
*
* The specific value returned indicates the type and sign of the BigDecimal,
* as follows: