I was aware that it could be any or all of those issues. I was just stating the facts, not complaining.
Here is what I sent him: > Hi, I hope you don’t mind a direct e-mail. > I was pointed at your Formatting.jl package, after I’d made the suggestion > of adding a fmt function in a new package, > and kmsquire pointed out that there was already a Formatting.jl package, > which is where it should go, and then > when I investigated, I saw that it had a fmt function that was almost > exactly what I was suggesting. > I was wondering what you’d think of me adding my idea (renamed possibly > `sfmt` to avoid the naming conflict`) to your very > nice package (which I think should be in Base, instead of so much *unused* > stuff like “RopeString” ;-) ). > My idea was the following: > sfmt( value [, format [, format arguments] ] ) > The reason to have the value first, is that you could have methods added > to have a default format for specific types. > For example, the C sprintf(buf, “%*s”, 8, string) would become something > like: > sfmt( string, “*s”, 8) > What do you think? > Thanks, Scott As I said, his formatting package does seem very nice, and very complete as well... [OT: Will he be coming to JuliaCon? I hope so!] On Thursday, June 18, 2015 at 1:00:20 PM UTC-4, Stefan Karpinski wrote: > > Dahua is pretty busy and lives in a very different time zone. He also may > not want to respond to direct messages. > > On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 11:44 AM, Scott Jones <scott.pa...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> I tried directly e-mailing him (after having gotten a lot of grief for >> posting so much!), but I haven't heard back... >> >
