[nem-en] Formatting strings in printf-style functions

[Michal Moskal]

On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 09:17:40PM +0200, Kamil Skalski wrote:
> Current support for formatting strings in Nemerle.IO.f/s//printf  functions 
> isn't rich (just basic types without precisions specifiers), but there is one 
> issue, which probably should be changed.
> 
> printf ("%f", 5.5)   <---   parameter is expected to be of type double
> 
> in original libc functions it is a float type, while double is specified by
> %lf
> 
> Now we have to decide if we want %f == double, which is default floating point 
> type in Nemerle and %lf == decimal (and no specifier for float) or change
> specification to something more C-conformant (could break some code).
> 
> I opt for latter.

For me %f is float, %lf is double. Using something else is only creating
confusion.

But I guess I don't understand what has decimal (type, I assume?) here
to do?

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