Saaa wrote:
Some time ago I requested something on .D, but it was ignored.
I'm interested in why this is so.
It was only a small request, maybe not fitting for .D but dsourse/phobos
said that was the place for such things.
(Maybe it was unintelligible again?)
The place (.D) was right, but I think your timing was bad. :) You posted
it in the middle of the (very heated) properties debate, and people were
way too preoccupied with that to care about other things.
You could try the newsgroup again if you feel it is something that needs
discussion, or you could simply post an enhancement request in Bugzilla:
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/
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Could an option be added to the formatting to elide trailing zero's for %f ?
That way it is possible to create an more optimal formatting for which the
following holds:
float f;
s = format(f);
float f2 = to!(float)(s);
assert(f==f2);
The formatting I'm trying to get can be seen here (decimal):
http://www.h-schmidt.net/FloatApplet/IEEE754.html
try 0.1, 0.0001, 10 & 10000000
%g fails to format like this because it uses %f for as small as 10^-5,
thus loosing precision for floats with leading zero's, like 0.0001234567
It would be even nicer to have this kind of formatting added to std.format!
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With little effort the default float format even could be lossless, wouldn't
that be nice?
I think it's a good idea. :)
-Lars
