A formatter can either take a TFormattable instance and format the data into text, or it can scan text and convert it back to the data type, returning the data as a TFormattable instance. A formatter class raises an exception if you pass it the wrong type of TFormattable.
This figure shows how the Format and Scan operations process the
formattable data:
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