On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 06:20:47PM +0200, Andreas Färber wrote: > Am 27.04.2012 22:21, schrieb Michael Roth: > > Currently string-output-visitor formats floats as %g, which is nice in > > that trailing 0's are automatically truncated, but otherwise this causes > > some issues: > > > > - it 6 uses significant figures instead of 6 decimal places, which > > "it uses 6 significant" >
Doh, I'll send an updated patch with the commit msg fixed. > > means something like 155777.5 (which even has an exact floating point > > representation) will be rounded to 155778 when converted to a string. > > > > - output will be presented in scientific notation when the normalized > > form requires a 10^x multiplier. Not a huge deal, but arguably less > > readable for command-line arguments. > > > > - due to using sig figs instead of hard-defined decimal places, it > > "six figs"? > significant figures, "scientific notation" is probably clearer, I'll include it in the update. > > fails a lot of the test-visitor-serialization unit tests for floats. > > > > Instead, let's just use %f, which is what the QJSON and the QMP visitors > > use. > > > > Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <mdr...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> > > /-F > > -- > SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany > GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer; HRB 16746 AG Nürnberg >
