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From: "Clément Pit--Claudel" <clement.pitclaudel@live.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 25557@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25557: Documentation of format doesn't describe "g" accurately
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2017 15:06:22 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1c6fc160-2c5f-a82d-b3cc-641f08dbf160@live.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83tw8jx9p3.fsf@gnu.org>


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On 2017-01-28 14:31, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Cc: 25557@debbugs.gnu.org
>> From: Clément Pit--Claudel <clement.pitclaudel@live.com>
>> Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2017 14:14:03 -0500
>>
>>>> I'm trying to get the shortest representation of a decimal number, rounded to .01, not using scientific/exponential notation.  I'm using values computed in ELisp to produce CSS style sheets, which until recently didn't allow for exponential notation.  I'd like these stylesheets to be readable, so 100% is better 100.00%, and 3.35em is better than 3.35004em. If my code is fed a value of 5000px, I don't want it converted to 5e+3px, because many browsers don't know how to parse that.
>>>
>>> Then I think you want to use %d for integral values and %.2f for the
>>> rest.
>>
>> No, that still won't do: it wouldn't format 3.0 as "3", if I understand correctly.
> 
> ??? (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?


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  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-28 20:06 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 [this message]
2017-01-28 20:29                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-01-28 20:45                       ` Clément Pit--Claudel

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