https://nalar.dev/tags/fractions/ Recent content in Fractions on Nalar Hugo en-us Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0700 https://nalar.dev/accept-numeric-protocols-with-fraction-from-number/ Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0700 https://nalar.dev/accept-numeric-protocols-with-fraction-from-number/ <p>A function that accepts a number and a function that parses text are not quite the same API.</p> <p>I keep running into this distinction in configuration code, pricing tools, import pipelines, and small libraries. The caller may already have an <code>int</code>, <code>float</code>, <code>Decimal</code>, or another numeric object. In that case, accepting a string such as <code>&quot;0.25&quot;</code> just because it happens to look numeric can make the boundary less clear than it needs to be.</p>