Re: Same code gives different answers in 2 different scripts
Re: Same code gives different answers in 2 different scripts
- Subject: Re: Same code gives different answers in 2 different scripts
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 19:37:54 -0400
Some sort of number formatting would be nice, but what should it look
like? The C printf() format has become a sort of de facto standard -
even crypticity-averse Python uses it - but it doesn't feel very
AppleScripty. On the other hand, something like "format number as
width 7 with 2 decimal places and leading zeroes" is, I think, a tad
too verbose. Maybe something akin to BASIC's PRINT USING or Oracle's
TO_CHAR, where the format string includes an explicit placeholder for
each possible output digit, might work.
On 6/4/09, Shane Stanley <email@hidden> wrote:
> On 5/6/09 7:52 AM, "Chris Page" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> I understand why that makes a certain sense, but round is a math
>> operation. There are lots of math operations.
>>
>> Formatting a value--numeric or otherwise--as text is a separate
>> operation from rounding, multiplication or, say, concatenation and
>> filtering.
>
> Right, but it's not like there's no precedent for mixing stuff like this. A
> good example is:
>
> 1.5 as integer
>
> This used to throw an error, because of course 1.1 can't be made into an
> integer. Someone decided this wasn't helpful, so now the coercion does a
> rounding operation and then coerces the result of that.
>
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