iota to array

[psychoticRabbit]

On Sunday, 25 February 2018 at 08:46:19 UTC, rumbu wrote:
> On Sunday, 25 February 2018 at 08:08:30 UTC, psychoticRabbit 
> wrote:
>>
>>
>> But umm.... what happended to the principle of least 
>> astonishment?
>>
>> writeln(1.1); (prints 1.1)
>> whereas..
>> writeln(1.0); (prints 1)
>>
>> I don't get it. Cause it's 'nicer'??
>>
>
> Because writeln(someFloat) is equivalent to writefln("%g", 
> someFloat). And according to printf specification, "trailing 
> zeros are removed from the fractional part of the result; a 
> decimal point appears only if it is followed by at least one 
> digit"

oh. that explains it.

I would have preffered it defaulted java style ;-)

System.out.println(1.0); // i.e. it prints 'what I told it to 
print'.