From: Markus S. <mar...@gm...> - 2009-01-14 18:59:07
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Addendum: I suggest that for binary/octal/hex we have a BinaryNumberFormat class as a sibling to DecimalFormat, and parameterize it with radix 2/8/16 and with uppercase/lowercase for hex. (The name BasicNumberFormat is misleading: It suggests that it's a base class for other NumberFormats like DecimalFormat.) I suggest that we design the BinaryNumberFormat API to support negative integers, with two formatting options: 1. Use a "-" prefix. 2. Fill up with (radix-1) digits on the left up to a specified field width. I think we should design this even if that API does not get implemented right away, so we agree on where we are going with the API. markus |