Hi Brendan
this looks well, so please, add it to commitfest page
regards
Pavel Stehule
2009/4/26 Brendan Jurd <direvus@gmail.com>:
> On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 3:51 AM, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> wrote:
>> So, please, if you can, propose these error messages (with hints)-
>> result will be much better.
>>
>
> Hi Pavel, hackers.
>
> I've done some work updating Pavel's sci notation patch for to_char().
> I've attached a patch against HEAD (EEEE_2.diff.bz2) and against
> Pavel's patch as originally submitted to the list
> (EEEE_1-to-2.diff.bz2).
>
> A summary of my changes:
>
> * Improve the wording of error messages, and add some detail/hint parts.
> * Update the documentation.
> * Move the duplicated "one digit before decimal point" test into a macro.
> * Fix a bug in the int8_to_char() implementation (was using the wrong
> variable).
>
> Hope you find this useful.
>
> Cheers,
> BJ
>