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

[Colin P. A. <co...@co...>]

>>>>> "Colin" == Colin Adams <col...@go...> writes:

    Colin> OK. I understand your point now.  I did think at the
    Colin> weekend about making it a generic parameter (constrained to
    Colin> a descendant of NUMERIC), but then I got side-tracked by
    Colin> the possibility of eliminating MA_DECIMAL altogether.

    Colin> I will investigate this at the weekend.

I've reviewed DT_XSLT_NUMBERER_EN to see whether this is possible.

The main problem seems to be the use of
{MA_DECIMAL}.is_integer/to_integer as NUMERIC doesn't have these.

The use of {MA_DECIMAL}.to_scientific_string is also an issue - but it
is probably non-conformant as it is.

I can eliminate MA_DECIMAL quite easily by using a new deferred class
which will have two descendants, one based on INTEGER_64 or
INTEGER_32, and one based on MA_DECIMAL.

But you are already unhappy about the use of auxiliary classes.

And I definitely can't eliminate the unicode library usage.
-- 
Colin Adams
Preston Lancashire