Re: [Pharo-dev] #printShowingMaxDecimalPlaces: What do you think?

2016-11-14 Thread Brad
I vote for the NumberFormatter. It adds another layer, which can be a pain, but gives you much more flexibility. Plus it decouples the formatting from all of the number classes. VA Smalltalk has something like this. Brad Selfridge 913-269-2385 > On Nov 14, 2016, at 8:38 AM, Sven Van Caekenberg

Re: [Pharo-dev] #printShowingMaxDecimalPlaces: What do you think?

2016-11-14 Thread Sven Van Caekenberghe
I am voting against because both methods are very similar while we are trying to clean. Also, if I would have to present a number I would personally always prefer the .00 for uniformity. But I understand what you want. I think a NumberFormatter object would be better -- what about thousands se

[Pharo-dev] #printShowingMaxDecimalPlaces: What do you think?

2016-11-14 Thread Cyril Ferlicot D.
Hi! I have a problem in an application, I need to print some numbers with 2 decimals max. The numbers can be an Integer, Float or Fraction. I checked and found Number>>#printShowingDecimalPlaces:. This is cool but this is not what I want because when I get "10", I want to print "10" and not "10.00