From: "naruse (Yui NARUSE)" <naruse@...>
Date: 2013-03-30T05:17:46+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:53830] [Ruby 1.8 - Bug #1566][Rejected] sprintf with %e or %E Format Specifer Incorrectly Capitalises Inf and NaN


Issue #1566 has been updated by naruse (Yui NARUSE).

Description updated
Status changed from Assigned to Rejected

1.8's sprintf is a simple wrapper of sprintf(3).
sprintf(3)'s e/E behaves as you said.
See also http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/fprintf.html
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Bug #1566: sprintf with %e or %E Format Specifer Incorrectly Capitalises Inf and NaN
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/1566#change-38039

Author: runpaint (Run Paint Run Run)
Status: Rejected
Priority: Normal
Assignee: knu (Akinori MUSHA)
Category: 
Target version: Ruby 1.8.8
ruby -v: ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [i486-linux]


=begin
 sprintf/String#% use the %e and %E format specifier to determine the case of results which are NaN or Inf. For example:
 
   $ ruby1.8 -ve 'p sprintf("%e", 0.0/0)'
   ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [i486-linux]
   "nan"
 
   $ ruby1.8 -ve 'p sprintf("%E", 0.0/0)'
   ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [i486-linux]
   "NAN"
 
 I suspect this is wrong for the following reasons:
 
 * 1.9 doesn't capitalise these values, i.e. it always returns Inf or NaN.
 * The rdoc description for the %E field is "Equivalent to `e', but uses an uppercase E to indicate the exponent." Neither Inf or NaN are exponents.
 * The description for the %e field doesn't make any mention of it's output case.
 * JRuby, and I believe Rubinius, behave as 1.9 does.
 * NaN and Inf have specific mathematical meanings; it doesn't make sense to subject them to English capitalisation rules.
=end



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