Martin, et al., > I think we should allow 'year' to be "double" instead, and so it > could also be +Inf or -Inf and we'd nicely cover > the conversions from and to 'numeric' -- which is really used > internally for dates and date-times in POSIXct.
storing years as a double makes me worry slightly about ---- > year <- 1e50 > (year+1)-year [1] 0 ---- which is not how one thinks of years (or integers) as behaving. cheers, Greg ps -- sorry for the ">" overloading! ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel