Clojure-Contrib

• Type: Defect
• Status: Closed
• Resolution: Completed
• Affects Version/s: None
• Fix Version/s: None
• Component/s: None
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Reported to me by Carlos Ungil (and confirmed by me):

Unfortunately there are still some issues with rounding. I've noticed that when the
mantissa is rounded up from 9 to 10 the exponent is not changed
accordingly. As a result, we get for example
clojure.contrib.pprint> (cl-format nil "~,0F" 9.4) => "9."
clojure.contrib.pprint> (cl-format nil "~,0F" 9.5) => "1.0"

I've compared the output from Clojure and Common Lisp for a handful of
cases. Below we see how "0.10" is returned instead of "1.0" when
printing 0.99 with a single digit after the decimal point. There is
also a minor problem with "01." being printed instead of "1.", but
returning a different representation for a number is of course not as
bad as returning a wrong representation.

;;(map #(cl-format nil % 0.99) ["~,0F" "~,1F" "~,2F" "~,3F"])
("01." "0.10" "0.99" "0.990")
;;(loop for fmt in '("_{,0F" "},1F" "_{,2F" "},3F") collect (format nil
fmt 0.99))
("1." "1.0" "0.99" "0.990")

There are also issues with negative numbers, the add-sign variable has
the same bug in fixed-float that it had in dollar-float but fixing
that is not enough to correct the problem.

;; > (map #(cl-format nil % -0.99) ["~,0F" "~,1F" "~,2F" "~,3F"])
("010." "0-1.0" "0-0.99" "0-0.990")

• Assignee:

  Tom Faulhaber

  Reporter:

  Anonymous

• Created:

  03/Dec/09 6:07 AM

  Updated:

  24/Aug/10 1:25 PM

  Resolved:

  24/Aug/10 1:25 PM