It's not only about what people find intuitive. Why care about them? Most persons aren't programmers. It is about what application developers find useful too. I have often needed to calculate month deltas according to the proposal. I suspect many other programmers have too. Writing a month add function isn't entirely trivial and would be a good candidate for stdlib imho.
2009/4/17, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net>: > James Y Knight <foom <at> fuhm.net> writes: >> >> It's a human-interface operation, and as such, everyone (ahem) "knows >> what it means" to say "2 months from now", but the details don't >> usually have to be thought about too much. > > I don't think it's true. When you say "2 months from now", some people will > think "9 weeks from now" (or "10 weeks from now"), others "60 days from > now", > and yet other will think of the meaning this proposal gives it. > > That's why, when scheduling a meeting, you don't say "2 months from now". > You > give a precise date instead, because you know otherwise people wouldn't show > up > on the same day. > > Regards > > Antoine. > > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/bjourne%40gmail.com > -- mvh Björn _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com