Re: Experimental classes for controlling Float printing format

2012/5/23 Lawson English <lenglish5 <at> cox.net>:
> Take a look at the capabilities of the mpfr library. In the long run, it
> might be good to be able to switch between the boxed float primitive of
> squeak/pharo, and the extended capabilities of the external lib:
> http://www.mpfr.org/ and the capabilities of mpfr might be a good guideline
> for what an extended floating point class should be able to do.
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> Lawson
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http://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-current/mpfr.html#Formatted-Output-Functions
tells mpfr provides kind of printf.
That's the purpose of FloatPrinter experiments.

Nicolas

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> On 5/22/12 3:53 PM, Nicolas Cellier wrote:
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> Here is a set of experimental classes for controlling floating point
> output format.
> The ideas are:
> - 1) we can extend these formatting capabilities without creating a
> bunch of new messages combinations
>       instead, we just have parameterized FloatPrinter object (+
> subclasses), and use cascade of elementary messages
>       The capabilities are right now limited to scientific, free
> format, fixed point and storeOn: format.
>       But features are growable, and we could as well control
> localization, thousand separators, padding (total width, width left of
> fraction point, force + sign, etc...)
> - 2) The complex algorithm for printing accurately
> (Burger/Dybvig/Steele) has been split into private methods in order to
> be reusable by various format (fixed number of decimal places and
> fixed number of significand digits)
>       I choosed to store above algorithm internal states in inst var
> in order to avoid explosion of meaningless parameters...
>       This turns the functional implementation into a stateful
> implementation, but encapsulated in a class and private messages...
>       It's a bit the same design choice as SqNumberParser.
>       Having more comments is also a benefit (it's still preferable to
> read the paper though)
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> The good news is that, despite parametrization and FloatPrinter
> instantiation, slow down is typically limited to 3% (we can optimize
> the default case eventually)...
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> Comments, extensions and alternate design are welcome.
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