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<p>+1 for preventing "2 second" from answering "1 second", too confusing.</p>
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<p>-1 for answering "2 seconds" for "2 second", that would be very ambiguous language and grammatically incorrect. :-)</p>
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<p>I think we should either go with an assertion (self assert: self = 1) or deprecate the singular selectors altogether.</p>
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<p>Best,</p>
<p>Christoph</p>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>Von:</b> Squeak-dev <squeak-dev-bounces@lists.squeakfoundation.org> im Auftrag von Chris Muller <asqueaker@gmail.com><br>
<b>Gesendet:</b> Dienstag, 9. März 2021 05:53:10<br>
<b>An:</b> The general-purpose Squeak developers list<br>
<b>Betreff:</b> Re: [squeak-dev] Explorer / Inspector bug?</font>
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My expectation would be that #second, #minute, #hour etc would<br>
be syntactic sugar. And I certainly would not expect "5 second"<br>
to mean one second duration.<br>
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I note that we have several methods like this (second, minute, hour...)<br>
and they have Brent Pinkney's (brp) initials since 2004. I don't know<br>
if anyone depends on that existing behavior.<br>
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<div>That's correct. Brent adopted those methods from my MaTimeObjects package (which is still installable from SqueakMap), although in my version it didn't even account for the sign, it was always just ^ 1 second, regardless of the receiver. I agree they
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Off topic, but there are other problems with these duration methods.<br>
They are defined in Number but round the duration magnitudes to<br>
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<div>Where do you see that? I just tried "1.5 hours" and it worked...</div>
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And durations for 1 day or 1 week are undefinable<br>
due to daylight savings transitions and occasional leap seconds.</blockquote>
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<div>True, from a literal sense, but by that assessment we would have similar "problems" with ChronologyConstants' DaysInMonth, MicrosecondsInDay, OneDay, SecondsInDay, SecondsInHour, and SecondsInMinute. All are useful, nonetheless.</div>
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<div> - Chris</div>
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