<div><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 2:21 AM, Andreas Raab <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andreas.raab@gmx.de">andreas.raab@gmx.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hi there -<br>
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I just realized how silly it is to write code like:<br>
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(Delay forSeconds: 60) wait.<br>
(Delay forMilliseconds: 1000) wait.<br>
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when we have units available and might as well say:<br>
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(Delay for: 60 seconds) wait.<br>
(Delay for: 5 days + 3 hours + 17 minutes) wait.<br>
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What do people think about this? Overkill or just right?<br>
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Cheers,<br><font color="#888888">
- Andreas<br>
</font></blockquote></div><br></div><div>I think it is great and I think what is needed is a standardized units implementation in the base squeak. There are plenty of units implementations that have been around for years (some that are very well designed and thought out) and I think the main barrier to wide adoption has been the simple fact that none of them have been included in a base smalltalk distribution. </div>
<div><br></div><div>- Stephen</div>