+1 to swapping -0 for 0 On Thu, 12 Sep 2019 at 12:44, Kye Russell <m...@kye.id.au> wrote:
> Sounds reasonable. As you said, the template tags (well, this one) seem to > be to prepare things for human consumption, not to expose computer science > intricacies. > > If I saw this presented on a website, as a ‘developer-user’, I’d probably > consider it a bug. I’m unsure of other uses of this filter though. > > Kye Russell > Sent from my iPhone > > > On 12 Sep 2019, at 12:54 pm, Sky Christensen <s...@skychristensen.com> > wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I'd like to discuss reopening this wontfix'ed ticket: > https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/30761 > > > > The issue is that for values between 0 and -0.5, the floatformat filter > returns "-0", whereas I think that most people would expect it to return > "0". > > > > The ticket was wontfix'ed because "this behavior is consistent with > builtin round() and -0 exists in floating-point arithmetic". > > > > Can I propose that in this case the better way to decide the result that > it should produce is to ask what an ordinary person would expect to see, > rather than what's consistent with a particular Python function? > > > > When humans round -0.3 to the nearest whole number, we express the > result as 0, not -0. Given that the point of template tags and filters is > to make data more human-readable, I think returning "0" is preferable in > this case than returning "-0". > > > > If this ticket is reopened, I'll be happy to submit a patch for it. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Sky > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/aec9450abcb511a0bb4a020c770a0483%40skychristensen.com > . > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/1F8DEBF9-FBEB-4A1C-BE3B-CA9D4507E702%40kye.id.au > . > -- Adam -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/CAMyDDM3FhTEUmWmpHaAqHuRxCbqHJcH6riS9vQ%2BNjhx3LcGhPA%40mail.gmail.com.
