Ron Adam wrote:
> 
> Truncating behavior is 
> explicitly specified by giving a max_width size without a replacement 
> character.

I think that would be an extremely bad default for numbers.

 > I believe they will learn fairly quickly what not to do.

Even if that's true, why make the behaviour that's desirable
in the vast majority of cases more difficult to specify?

--
Greg
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