>>>>> "Twisti" == Christian Thalinger <twisti@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: Twisti> A few days back I tried to implement float printing in Twisti> Formatter. When looking at the existing int/long code, I saw Twisti> that toString() functions are used to print the value to a Twisti> buffer. That seems to be ok for such values, but handling Twisti> floats like this won't work, I guess. So the question is, Twisti> should we stick to our native float-printing implementation Twisti> (dtoa) or would it be better to have something, more flexible, Twisti> in Java? I suspect Formatter will need its own FP-formatting code. Tom