That looks like it would fit my use case well. Is this the issue we should use to discuss getting this merged in? I am willing to help test and debug.
https://github.com/JuliaLang/Formatting.jl/issues/8 Summarizing my argument so far: In order to promote the practice of using UInt to explicitly declare numbers as being unsigned, I think the default for UInt should be to print decimals, and allow switching to hex via the above interface for those who use it for bit strings. This has the added advantage of being consistent with Int, plus I strongly suspect using UInt to indicate an actual unsigned integer (and not a bitstream) is the most common use case. I am not sure where to go from here to request this change. Should I make a formal request to Julia devs, perhaps by posting in julia-dev? Or should I post in the existing related issue linked above? Or should I create a new issue elsewhere? Still learning how the Julia community does things, so suggestions are appreciated. On 09/16/2015 08:50 PM, Tom Breloff wrote: > > Maybe there should be an interface for declaring the default > output format for a specific type, similar to stream formatting in > C++? > > > I started down this path, made a PR to Formatting, but no one ever > commented or merged it, so I assume no one cares about this > functionality. Here it is if you're curious: > > https://github.com/JuliaLang/Formatting.jl/pull/10
