Waiting for your comments, over at https://github.com/lindahua/Formatting.jl/issues/8!
On Thursday, June 18, 2015 at 1:22:04 PM UTC-4, Tom Breloff wrote: > > Yes it was on julia-dev. Regardless I think the right path forward is to > start a discussion on github (in Formatting.jl) and we could hash out > exactly what would be nice for users. Based on your posts, you may have a > very different perspective on string formatting that your average > developer/scientist. My goal would be to have methods that are extremely > simple to understand and super short to write, so that people actually use > them. Bonus points if those methods are flexible enough for those that > need additional options. Anyways... over to github? > > On Thursday, June 18, 2015 at 1:07:21 PM UTC-4, Scott Jones wrote: >> >> >> I was aware that it could be any or all of those issues. I was just >> stating the facts, not complaining. >> >> Here is what I sent him: >> >>> Hi, I hope you don’t mind a direct e-mail. >>> I was pointed at your Formatting.jl package, after I’d made the >>> suggestion of adding a fmt function in a new package, >>> and kmsquire pointed out that there was already a Formatting.jl package, >>> which is where it should go, and then >>> when I investigated, I saw that it had a fmt function that was almost >>> exactly what I was suggesting. >>> I was wondering what you’d think of me adding my idea (renamed possibly >>> `sfmt` to avoid the naming conflict`) to your very >>> nice package (which I think should be in Base, instead of so much >>> *unused* stuff like “RopeString” ;-) ). >>> My idea was the following: >>> sfmt( value [, format [, format arguments] ] ) >>> The reason to have the value first, is that you could have methods added >>> to have a default format for specific types. >>> For example, the C sprintf(buf, “%*s”, 8, string) would become something >>> like: >>> sfmt( string, “*s”, 8) >>> What do you think? >>> Thanks, Scott >> >> >> As I said, his formatting package does seem very nice, and very complete >> as well... >> [OT: Will he be coming to JuliaCon? I hope so!] >> >> On Thursday, June 18, 2015 at 1:00:20 PM UTC-4, Stefan Karpinski wrote: >>> >>> Dahua is pretty busy and lives in a very different time zone. He also >>> may not want to respond to direct messages. >>> >>> On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 11:44 AM, Scott Jones <scott.pa...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> I tried directly e-mailing him (after having gotten a lot of grief for >>>> posting so much!), but I haven't heard back... >>>> >>>
