ignored phobos request

[Saaa]

"Lars T. Kyllingstad" <public at kyllingen.NOSPAMnet> wrote in message 
news:h5tsuu$bc4$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Saaa wrote:
>> Some time ago I requested something on .D, but it was ignored.
>> I'm interested in why this is so.
>> It was only a small request, maybe not fitting for .D but dsourse/phobos 
>> said that was the place for such things.
>> (Maybe it was unintelligible again?)
>
> The place (.D) was right, but I think your timing was bad. :) You posted 
> it in the middle of the (very heated) properties debate, and people were 
> way too preoccupied with that to care about other things.
>
> You could try the newsgroup again if you feel it is something that needs 
> discussion, or you could simply post an enhancement request in Bugzilla:
>
>   http://d.puremagic.com/issues/

I always thought bugzilla was only for bugs..

>
>
>> ---
>> Could an option be added to the formatting to elide trailing zero's for 
>> %f ?
>> That way it is possible to create an more optimal formatting for which 
>> the
>> following holds:
>>
>> float f;
>> s = format(f);
>> float f2 = to!(float)(s);
>> assert(f==f2);
>>
>> The formatting I'm trying to get can be seen here (decimal):
>> http://www.h-schmidt.net/FloatApplet/IEEE754.html
>> try 0.1, 0.0001, 10 & 10000000
>>
>> %g fails to format like this because it uses %f for as small as 10^-5,
>> thus loosing precision for floats with leading zero's, like 0.0001234567
>>
>> It would be even nicer to have this kind of formatting added to 
>> std.format!
>> ---
>>
>> With little effort the default float format even could be lossless, 
>> wouldn't that be nice?
>
> I think it's a good idea. :)
Yay :)
>
> -Lars
>