package vals import ( "math" "strconv" "strings" ) // Stringer wraps the String method. type Stringer interface { // Stringer converts the receiver to a string. String() string } // ToString converts a Value to string. It is implemented for the builtin // float64 and string types, and type satisfying the Stringer interface. It // falls back to Repr(v). func ToString(v interface{}) string { switch v := v.(type) { case int: return strconv.Itoa(v) case float64: return formatFloat64(v) // Other number types handled by "case Stringer" case string: return v case Stringer: return v.String() default: return ReprPlain(v) } } func formatFloat64(f float64) string { // Go's 'g' format is not quite ideal for printing floating point numbers; // it uses scientific notation too aggressively, and relatively small // numbers like 1234567 are printed with scientific notations, something we // don't really want. // // So we use a different algorithm for determining when to use scientific // notation. The algorithm is reverse-engineered from Racket's; it may not // be a perfect clone but hopefully good enough. // // See also b.elv.sh/811 for more context. s := strconv.FormatFloat(f, 'f', -1, 64) noPoint := !strings.ContainsRune(s, '.') if (noPoint && len(s) > 14 && s[len(s)-1] == '0') || strings.HasPrefix(s, "0.0000") { return strconv.FormatFloat(f, 'e', -1, 64) } else if noPoint && !math.IsNaN(f) && !math.IsInf(f, 0) { return s + ".0" } return s }