Yes, Tom is making me feel lazy, by all that he's gotten done already! Of course, the more input the better, please join us!
On Monday, June 22, 2015 at 2:53:58 PM UTC-4, Tom Breloff wrote: > > For anyone else that's curious, Scott and I have been discussing this on > github, and would love input from others. I have a minimal working example > with a new "fmt" method, but I'd like to work on something that people will > actually use. > > On Thursday, June 18, 2015 at 2:08:45 PM UTC-4, Scott Jones wrote: >> >> Waiting for your comments, over at >> https://github.com/lindahua/Formatting.jl/issues/8! >> >> On Thursday, June 18, 2015 at 1:22:04 PM UTC-4, Tom Breloff wrote: >>> >>> 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... >>>>>> >>>>>
