Stop to! rounding?

[Marco Leise]

Am Tue, 2 Jul 2013 22:21:52 -0700
schrieb "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx>:

> On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 10:14:33PM -0700, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> [...]
> > import std.stdio;
> > import std.conv;
> > 
> > void main()
> > {
> >     auto a = to!double("151.42499");
> >     writefln("%.60f", a);
> > }
> 
> I wouldn't write it like that; IMO it's better to write:
> 
> 	writefln("%.*f", double.dig, a);
> 
> So that you don't give the wrong impression that there are more digits
> than are actually there. Using double.dig also lets you see all the
> digits that *are* there, not a rounded value, that the OP was
> complaining about.
> 
> 
> T
> 

*f ? I didn't know that you can format the format string like
that. Thanks for the tip.

-- 
Marco