Re: [gobo-eiffel-develop] Date/time formatting

[Colin A. <col...@go...>]

On 07/01/2008, Eric Bezault <er...@go...> wrote:
>
> Colin Adams wrote:
>
> > But the code is shared by xsl:number (as the formatting rules are
> > defined to be the same), which might format any number.
>
> And is it that much code duplication to implement the formatting
> rules both for an INTEGER and for a MA_DECIMAL as input?


Unfortunately, yes, it is (I did have a look into this).
What is more, it will get worse in the future - so far there is only an
English language version. There will be more.


It sounds to me as if because when written to a file an integer
> and a decimal look the same we should first convert INTEGERs to
> MA_DECIMALs when passing them to class FILE.


Now you've lost me.