Yes!!!! Right now I will keep readFrom: (reading only ISO8601) and if one day we get what you propose I would be happy. Send code :)
> imo, it should look like: > > readFrom: stream > ^ readFrom: stream pattern: ISO8601 > > and > readFrom:pattern: > > should parse date by taking an arbitrary pattern into account. > We could invent own syntax for a pattern, or use other invented ones > (from C, Perl etc), > and implement a separate DateTimeParser class. > > The messy code like this > aStream peek = $- ifTrue: [ aStream next. bc := -1] ifFalse: [bc := 1]. > year := (aStream upTo: $-) asInteger * bc. > month := (aStream upTo: $-) asInteger ifNil: [1]. > day := (aStream upTo: $T) asInteger ifNil: [1]. > hour := (aStream upTo: $:) asInteger ifNil: [0]. > > should be put in trash! :) > > On 24 April 2010 23:05, Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.duca...@inria.fr> wrote: >> What I did was to stick with the ISO parsing and added a fuzzy readfrom (the >> previous one in pharo) >> so that readFrom: read only iso but well and fuzzy tries to find its way >> with strange input. >> >> Stef >> >> On Apr 24, 2010, at 9:48 PM, Nicolas Cellier wrote: >> >>> 2010/4/24 Julian Fitzell <jfitz...@gmail.com>: >>>> On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 10:54 AM, stephane ducasse >>>> <stephane.duca...@free.fr> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> What are the expectation for DateAndTime>>readFrom? >>>> >>>> Personally, my expectation is that it doesn't exist. :) >>>> >>>> To believe that there is a single way of parsing strings into dates (or >>>> numbers, or anything else) that will be appropriate in all cases is pretty >>>> silly. It would seem much better to me to have configurable parsing >>>> classes. >>>> >>>> Julian >>>> >>> >>> Sure, that might be usefull, however current implementation intention >>> clearly seems related to >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 >>> >>> Nicolas >>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Pharo-project mailing list >>>> Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr >>>> http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Pharo-project mailing list >>> Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr >>> http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Pharo-project mailing list >> Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr >> http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project >> > > > > -- > Best regards, > Igor Stasenko AKA sig. > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
