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

[Eric B. <er...@go...>]

Colin Adams wrote:
> On 07/01/2008, *Eric Bezault* <er...@go... 
> <mailto: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.

What impact would it have on the integers held in a date?
Would they use other unicode characters for the digits?

>     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.

In other words, for anything I want to do in an INTEGER, why
would I need to convert it to a MA_DECIMAL first? If I dpn't
do this conversion for anything I do with an INTEGER, why should
it be different in this particular case?

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