From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25464 invoked by alias); 12 Dec 2001 19:20:14 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gsl-discuss-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gsl-discuss-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 25452 invoked from network); 12 Dec 2001 19:20:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO bellerophon.lanl.gov) (128.165.59.112) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 12 Dec 2001 19:20:11 -0000 Received: from lanl.gov (IDENT:jungman@bellerophon.lanl.gov [127.0.0.1]) by bellerophon.lanl.gov (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id fBCJVif21901; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 12:31:44 -0700 Message-ID: <3C17B0A0.E276877A@lanl.gov> Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 12:20:00 -0000 From: Gerard Jungman Organization: LANL T-3 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-22smp i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fleur Kelpin CC: gsl-discuss@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: fprintf for blocks/vectors: why the \n? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2001-q4/txt/msg00130.txt.bz2 Message-ID: <20011205122000.b-Bv69zGTPIQ7lFWrPEg5Vk8aNVRkD2_BA1OUa62QE0@z> Fleur Kelpin wrote: > > If the automatic \n in block/fprintf_source.c were to go, people could > provide the format "%g\n" or "%g\t" or anything they like. > > This makes it easier to send the output of a time series of vectors to > e.g. gnuplot because one can also print to columns then, instead of > the now compulsory elements below each other. I never noticed this. I agree; the way it is now is not right. > Or, if backwards compatibility is a concern, maybe provide this in a > second function with slightly different name? Brian, what do you think? -- G. Jungman