Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Ralph Lange <[email protected]> · Fri, 11 Jun 2004 14:12:33 +0200

  >>> 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.

But that's not exactly the point: No one _is_ using negative values
currently, so the clients don't really have to care.

As soon as you start using negative values, you might encounter
unexpected behaviour from clients that don't expect this.

Ralph

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System