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 21:31:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83tw8jx9p3.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5b3f43e8-195d-777c-e660-302a3baf5f61@live.com> (message from Clément Pit--Claudel on Sat, 28 Jan 2017 14:14:03 -0500)
> 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).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-28 19:31 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 [this message]
2017-01-28 20:06 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2017-01-28 20:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-01-28 20:45 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
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