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soo wrote:
* From: Jens Axel Søgaard <jensaxel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
* Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 17:17:32 +0100
* Subj: Comments and some bugs
Thank you for your comments.
- the name OBJECT->STRING is more "Schemy"
(it's pretty long though)
Yes, it's too long.
- I find the name of the parameter DEPTH in the documentation
confusing. (It makes me think in two dimensional output)
How about 'precision'?
Precision is much better.
where a negative number is truncated:
> (fmt -1.55555 3 2)
"-1.54"
Yes, it's a bug.
I've corrected it.
After pasting SRFI 51 into the top and defining EVERY (called ANDMAP) in DrScheme, I got the following interaction: > (fmt -1.55555 3 2) "-1.56" > (fmt -5.0 0 #\space 10 + 'e) . fmt: exact number cannot have a decimal point 10 depth (and depth (eq? exactness (quote e))) ; Why not? > (fmt -5 0 #\space 10 + 'e) . fmt: exact number cannot have a decimal point 10 depth (and depth (eq? exactness (quote e))) > (fmt 1/2 0 #\space 10 +) "+0.5000000000" > (fmt 1/2) "1/2" > (fmt 1/2 5) " 1/2" > (fmt 1/2 5 0) " 1." ; Huh? > (fmt -1 10 0) " -1." ; Is this on purpose? > (fmt 1/2 5 2) " 0.50" > (fmt 1/2 5 2 10) . fmt: bad argument (10) (null? (10)) ; strange error messages > (fmt 1/2 5 2 #\space 10) . fmt: bad argument (10) (null? (10)) -- Jens Axel Søgaard