Poll on improved format strings.

[Don Clugston]

janderson wrote:
> Don Clugston wrote:
>> Daniel Keep wrote:
>>>
>>
>> When you use floating point, you want to specify the formatting 
>> options almost every time -- do you want %f, %e, %g, or %a? And it's 
>> almost always necessary to specify the number of decimal places to use.
>> I display integers in hex pretty often, too.
> 
> Most of the time I want the same number of decimal places.  I think 
> being able to provide a default decimal place would be a good idea.

I think you're right.