[squeak-dev] Could we have 1 api that work across all of the
datish classes?
Chris Muller
asqueaker at gmail.com
Fri Sep 12 15:16:54 UTC 2014
Just use the binary operators.
myDate + 3 days.
myDate - 3 days.
myDateAndTime + 3 days.
myDateAndTime - 3 days.
3 days fromNow.
3 days ago.
Finally, TimeStamps are deprecated, don't use them.
On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 9:59 AM, Chris Cunningham
<cunningham.cb at gmail.com> wrote:
> at least adjusting the date portions? We currently have:
>
> Date - #addDays:, #subtractDays:
> TimeStamp - #plusDays:, #minusDays:
> DateAndTime - #+ and #-
>
> I keep getting messed up by which type of object I have, and which method
> it understands to alter the date portion.
>
> Would the community be interested in having these methods spread out to all
> of the types so that we can have more polymorphic date representations?
> (and, maybe, even the rest of the protocols?)
>
> Or, alternatively, removing some of the options and settling on one
> standard?
>
> -cbc
>
>
>
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