Yes it was on julia-dev. Regardless I think the right path forward is to start a discussion on github (in Formatting.jl) and we could hash out exactly what would be nice for users. Based on your posts, you may have a very different perspective on string formatting that your average developer/scientist. My goal would be to have methods that are extremely simple to understand and super short to write, so that people actually use them. Bonus points if those methods are flexible enough for those that need additional options. Anyways... over to github?
On Thursday, June 18, 2015 at 1:07:21 PM UTC-4, Scott Jones wrote: > > > 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> >> wrote: >> >>> I tried directly e-mailing him (after having gotten a lot of grief for >>> posting so much!), but I haven't heard back... >>> >>
