Redux Re: Questions On Proposed ANSI Standard DateAndTime
R. A. Harmon
harmonra at webname.com
Thu Jul 9 22:16:39 UTC 1998
HI James Foster:
At 07:55 AM 7/9/98 -0500, you wrote:
>From: R. A. Harmon <harmonra at webname.com> (with possible editing)
SNIP]
>>>>Should the Duration>>#< message given an operand other than an instance of
>>>>class Duration generate an error or return false?
>>>
>>>Asking a duration of ten minutes if it is less than the color orange does
>>>not seem to be false unless you can come up with a way to make 10 minutes
>>>greater than orange. I would expect an error.
>>[SNIP]
>>
>>I'm not sure what you mean. The color orange is always less that any other
>>object in Smalltalk. See page 107 of "Smalltalk-80: The Language and its
>>Implementation".
SNIP]
Sorry about that. I was teasing you. All Squeakers note the statement
above is NOT true. It sometimes gets out of hand. Again I really
appreciate the help.
By the way, it's a great book.
--
Richard A. Harmon "The only good zombie is a dead zombie"
harmonra at webname.com E. G. McCarthy
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