Proposal

Problem statement

LowerExp and UpperExp format traits implementations are missing from the NonZero integer types. All other (Binary, *Hex, Octal, etc) have been implemented, so it looks like an oversight, especially since the integer primitives themselves do implement LowerExp and UpperExp.

Motivating examples or use cases

UpperExp example changed to use NonZeroU32

fn main() {
    let x = core::num::NonZeroU32::new(42).unwrap(); // 42 is '4.2E1' in scientific notation

    assert_eq!(format!("{x:E}"), "4.2E1");
}

Solution sketch

Implement LowerExp and UpperExp. It probably only involves adding impl_nonzero_fmt!(LowerExp) and impl_nonzero_fmt!(UpperExp) to the list of format impls

Alternatives

Use .get() like a pleb, which then needs to be passed as an argument since you cannot call functions from format! and friends.

Links and related work

N/A

What happens now?

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rust-lang / libs-team

Add `LowerExp` and `UpperExp` implementations to `NonZero` #458