Sorry I wasn't expecting you to run it... just comment. You'll have to do:
Pkg.rm("Formatting")
Pkg.clone("https://github.com/tbreloff/Formatting.jl.git";)
Pkg.checkout("Formatting", "tom-fmt")
Let me know if that works.
On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 5:52 PM, lawrence dworsky <m...@lawrencedworsky.com>
wrote:
> I'm afraid my beginner status with Julia is showing:
>
> I ran Pkg.add("Formatting"), and then using Formatting came back with
> a whole bunch of warnings, most about Union(args...) being depricated, use
> Union(args....) instead.
>
> When all is said and done, fmt_default! gives me a UndefVarError.
>
> Help!
>
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 2:45 PM, Tom Breloff <t...@breloff.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Larry, that's helpful. Just for discussions sake, here's a quick
>> macro that calls my proposed `fmt` method under the hood, and does
>> something similar to what you showed. What do you think about this style
>> (and what would you do differently)?
>>
>> using Formatting
>>
>> macro fmt(args...)
>> expr = Expr(:block)
>> expr.args = [:(print(fmt($(esc(arg))), "\t\t")) for arg in args]
>> push!(expr.args, :(println()))
>> expr
>> end
>>
>>
>> And then an example usage:
>>
>> In:
>>
>> x = 1010101
>> y = 555555.555555555
>> fmt_default!(width=15)
>>
>> @fmt x y
>>
>> fmt_default!(Int, :commas)
>> fmt_default!(Float64, prec=2)
>>
>> @fmt x y
>>
>>
>> Out:
>>
>> 1010101 555555.555556
>> 1,010,101 555555.56
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, September 22, 2015 at 3:08:35 PM UTC-4, lawrence dworsky
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Tom
>>>
>>> What I like about it is that you can just use print *, dumbly and it
>>> always provides useful, albeit not beautiful, results. When I'm writing a
>>> program, I use print statements very liberally to observe what's going on -
>>> I find this more convenient than an in-line debugger.
>>>
>>> As the last line in my program below shows, it's easy to switch to
>>> formatted output when you want to. The formatting capability is pretty
>>> thorough, I'm just showing a simple example.
>>>
>>> This Fortran program doesn't do anything, it just illustrates what the
>>> print statement produces:
>>>
>>>
>>> real x, y
>>> integer i, j
>>> complex z
>>> character*6 name
>>>
>>> x = 2.6
>>> y = -4.
>>> i = 36
>>> j = -40
>>> z = cmplx(17., 19.)
>>> name = 'Larry'
>>>
>>> print *, x, y, i, j, z
>>> print *, 'x = ', x, ' and j = ', j
>>> print *, 'Hello, ', name, j
>>> print '(2f8.3, i5)', x, y, j
>>>
>>> stop
>>> end
>>>
>>>
>>> The output is:
>>>
>>> 2.60000 -4.00000 36
>>> -40 (17.0000, 19.0000)
>>> x = 2.60000 and j = -40
>>> Hello, Larry -40
>>> 2.600 -4.000 -40
>>>
>>>
>>> Is this what you are looking for?
>>>
>>> Larry
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 11:57 AM, Tom Breloff <t...@breloff.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Larry: can you provide details on exactly what you like about Fortran's
>>>> print statement? Did it provide good defaults? Was it easy to customize?
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 12:55 PM, LarryD <larryd...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Something I miss from Fortran is the very convenient default "print *,
>>>>> ..... " It handled almost 100% of my needs while working on a program and
>>>>> was easily replaced by real formatting when the time came. Is there any
>>>>> chance that Julia could get something like this?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Monday, September 21, 2015 at 3:46:31 AM UTC-5, Ferran Mazzanti
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Dear all,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I could use some help here, because I can't believe I'm not able to
>>>>>> easily print formatted numbers under Julia in a easy way. What I try to
>>>>>> do
>>>>>> is to write a function that, given a vector, prints all its components
>>>>>> with
>>>>>> a user-defined format. I was trying something of the form
>>>>>>
>>>>>> function Print_Vec(aux_VEC,form_VEC)
>>>>>> form_VEC :: ASCIIString
>>>>>> str_VEC = "%16.8f"
>>>>>> for elem_VEC in aux_VEC
>>>>>> str_VEC += @sprintf(form_VEC,elem_VEC)
>>>>>> end
>>>>>> return str_VEC
>>>>>> end
>>>>>>
>>>>>> However, that doesn't work because it looks like the first argument
>>>>>> in @sprintf must be a explicit string, and not a variable.
>>>>>> Is there anything I can do with that?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks a lot for your help.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>
