Well, everyone kinda checks everything, so if your concern it whether someone will see it, they probably have. If you want to talk through design/wishlist in detail, then a github issue in formatting is best (I think). If you start a new issue, please link from here.
On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 9:06 PM, Jesse Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > >
