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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Clément Pit--Claudel" <clement.pitclaudel@live.com>
Cc: 25557@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25557: Documentation of format doesn't describe "g" accurately
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2017 22:29:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83o9yrx70l.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1c6fc160-2c5f-a82d-b3cc-641f08dbf160@live.com> (message from Clément Pit--Claudel on Sat, 28 Jan 2017 15:06:22 -0500)

> Cc: 25557@debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Clément Pit--Claudel <clement.pitclaudel@live.com>
> Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2017 15:06:22 -0500
> 
> > ??? (format "%d" 3.0) => "3"
> > 
> > Or maybe you didn't think 3.0 was an "integral value" by my
> > definition?  I meant by that any value VAL which yields zero when
> > passed through (mod VAL 1.0).
> 
> Yup, I misunderstood your definition of integral value.  But that still doesn't cover formatting e.g. 3.3 as "3.3" instead of "3.30", right?

Yes, but that cannot be a problem, since you said the browsers
supported 2 digits after the decimal.

Or you could get fancier by using %.1f for values for which

  (zerop (mod (* 10 VAL) 1.0))

is non-nil.





  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-28 20:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-27 22:05 bug#25557: Documentation of format doesn't describe "g" accurately Clément Pit--Claudel
2017-01-28  8:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-01-28 15:04   ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2017-01-28 15:23     ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-01-28 15:45       ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2017-01-28 16:01         ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-01-28 16:18           ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2017-01-28 16:25             ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-01-28 19:14               ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2017-01-28 19:31                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-01-28 20:06                   ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2017-01-28 20:29                     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2017-01-28 20:45                       ` Clément Pit--Claudel

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