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List:       opensolaris-rfe
Subject:    [osol-rfe] RFE : number_to_scaled_string() function
From:       schilling () fokus ! fraunhofer ! de (Joerg Schilling)
Date:       2006-02-28 5:35:30
Message-ID: 4404514D.nailB8C4VKEMP () burner
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Jeremy Harris <jgh@wizmail.org> wrote:

> >>>[u]3. Where should it be done ?[/u]
> >>>I had been advised it [i]could[/i] be included into libadm. Any advices about it ?
> >>
> >>Why shouldn't it be a printf (etc.) format?
> > 
> > 
> > Because it would pollute the name space.
>
> Well, there are degrees of that.  It adds to some namespace
> wherever it's placed (assuming it's useful enough to
> actually do at all).
>
> How would you feel about it being a separate function, but
> living in libc ?

I would like to see a function that may be made usable to printf via
a generic printf extension that allows to use functions that do 
var -> string conversions.

Things like this are of general interest.

J?rg

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