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Subject: Re: PREC
From: Dirk Zimoch <[email protected]>
To: TECHTALK <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 13:24:02 +0200
Ralph Lange wrote:
>>>>>>"Dirk" == Dirk Zimoch <[email protected]> writes:
>>>>>
>
>   > I suggest the following:
>   > PREC >= 0 means to format the value like printf("%.*f",PREC,VAL);
>   > PREC < 0  means to format the value like printf("%.*e",-PREC,VAL);
>
> Interesting idea.
>
> How do you make sure that existing clients do not go beserk when they
> get a negative precision value from Channel Access (which they don't
> expect)?
>

Do they now? Nothing keeps me from using negative PREC values at the moment.

Dirk

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Swiss Light Source
Paul Scherrer Institut
Computing and Controls
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