I think Judson, Ross wrote: > It's a little frustrating working with time in Jess. You can store a > time as a java.util.Date, but then you can't compare it with <, >, > etc...if you work with it as a long, then you can't call + and other > math functions; they change the number into INTEGER. If you work with > time as ms/1000, then you lose a lot of accuracy. > > Any suggestions on how best to handle time? > > I have a few specific ones: > > 1. Extend <, >, etc. to work with Comparable objects.
I like this idea very much. > 2. Instead of printing ExternalAddress and so forth when printing out > fact lists, use an extra slot descriptor to indicate that toString() > should be called on the object in the fact slot, and that used as the > text to represent the object. > 3. Extend + and other math functions to work with LONG values. Yes, LONG should be a first-class type. This has been promised for several releases now! --------------------------------------------------------- Ernest Friedman-Hill Distributed Systems Research Phone: (925) 294-2154 Sandia National Labs FAX: (925) 294-2234 PO Box 969, MS 9012 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Livermore, CA 94550 http://herzberg.ca.sandia.gov -------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send the words 'unsubscribe jess-users [EMAIL PROTECTED]' in the BODY of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], NOT to the list (use your own address!) List problems? Notify [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
