OpenEuphoria

Re: pretty_print bug

• Posted by Brian Broker <bkb at cnw.com> Jun 26, 2004
• 484 views

Brian Broker wrote:
> 
> Robert Craig wrote:
> > 
> > Brian Broker wrote:
> > > 
> > > <font color="#330033"></font>
> > > <font color="#0000FF">include </font><font color="#330033">misc.e</font>
> > > <font color="#330033"></font>
> > > <font color="#0000FF">constant</font>
> > > <font color="#330033">n =
> > > {536870912,4294934783,3735928559,2164260736,1073741824,1073741823}</font>
> > > <font color="#330033"></font>
> > > <font color="#FF00FF">printf</font><font color="#330033">(1,</font><font
> > > color="#00A033">"{%x,%x,%x,%x,%x,%x}\n"</font><font color="#330033">,n)</font>
> > > <font color="#330033">pretty_print(1, n, </font><font
> > > color="#993333">{</font><font color="#330033">0,2,1,78,</font><font
> > > color="#00A033">"%x"</font><font color="#993333">} </font><font
> > > color="#330033">)</font>
> > > <font color="#330033"></font>
> > > 
> > > Output:
> > > {20000000,FFFF80FF,DEADBEEF,80FFFF80,40000000,3FFFFFFF}
> > > {20000000,4294934783,3735928559,2164260736,1073741824,3FFFFFFF}
> > 
> > pretty_print() uses integer() (31-bit numbers) to determine if 
> > something is an integer, whereas printf() tries to handle 32-bit
> > values as well. Quirky, inconsistent, but I don't plan to change it.
> > 
> > Regards,
> >    Rob Craig
> >    Rapid Deployment Software
> >    <a href="http://www.RapidEuphoria.com">http://www.RapidEuphoria.com</a>
> > 
> 
> How quirky, inconsistant, and unfortunate... wrong answer imho.

oh, and I forgot to ask... why not?  I haven't studied the code in-depth for
myself but Al has already made suggestions. So why not take them? Too close
to release time to accidentally break something?

Just curious,
-- Brian