On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 10:19 AM Gilles Sadowski <gillese...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Le sam. 26 janv. 2019 à 14:01, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> a
> écrit :
> >
> > Are we talking about formatting [numbers] specific classes or JRE
> classes?
>
> They are classes that aim to customize the output from classes in
> [Numbers],
> (specifically, the way to display a {{Fraction}} or {{BigFraction}}
> object).
>
Well, then that code does not belong in [text] since it requires [number]
classes.
Gary
> The classes provide accessors to the numerator and denominator which can be
> used by outside code to display the fraction as it wishes.
>
> Side note: Similar formatting classes in Commons Math are more of a
> nuisance
> than anything, e.g. displaying small numbers as "0" (in exception
> messages),
> because the default is to provide 6 decimal digits, thus discarding
> all significant
> information.
>
> Gilles
>
> >
> > Gary
> >
> > On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 7:14 AM Gilles Sadowski <gillese...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hi.
> > >
> > > In reference to the current changes in module
> "commons-numbers-fraction"
> > > (on the "fraction-dev"), my opinion is that the formatting classes
> should
> > > be
> > > removed.[1]
> > > At the level of a math component, it's safer to stick to a single,
> > > locale-independent format.[2]
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Gilles
> > >
> > > [1] Rationale is that pretty-printing is not the purpose of the library
> > > (better
> > > leave that to [Text], or a dedicated module).
> > > [2] There is a pending issue (NUMBERS-88) that suggests hard-coding the
> > > format.
> > >
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