On Mar 19, 2010, at 7:39 AM, Carla F. Griggio wrote: > I guess it depends on how you'd like to represent a date and time. > We may have 2 representations here, the DateAndTime object and the string. If > you consider that the string '1901-01-01T00:00:00+12:00' actually represents > that day and time and it's not just the way you would print it, then I think > it's valid to compare one representation and another of the same concept, > because they really mean the same to you.
we are in object-oriented programming not string oriented programming so this is not valid to a date and its string representation to be equal. :) > If you see '1901-01-01T00:00:00+12:00' and say "that's not a date and time, > it's just how I'd print it" maybe the only valid representation of the date > and time for you is a DateAndTime object, then it doesn't make sense > comparing de DateAndTime object with it's string. exact!!! > > Personally, I think the string it's just the "print string", I agree with > you. But maybe originally the people who implemented that comparison > considered it as a date and time representation too, so it makes sense to > compare them they probably wanted to do too much. Stef _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
