Doug Treder wrote:
The fuzzy logic that was being described earlier on the list is more
attractive. There are definitely edge cases where two durations
cannot
be compared and should throw exception. But most of the spectrum is
actually comparable, depending on the units being compared: 30
Dave Rolsky wrote:
I guess this boils down to four choices:
1) give an arbitrary answer
2) give a reasonable answer that may depend on the current time (add both
durations to the current time and compare the resulting times)
3) give an answer if it is correct for all times, throw an exception
On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, Max Maischein wrote:
PS: I didn't know that this was some hornets nest I stirred up again -
it was just a problem I wanted to solve for myself ...
Almost every facet of DateTime stuff is a hornet's nest. It seems simple
at first, but the deeper you get into it, the
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The fuzzy logic that was being described earlier on the list is more
attractive. There are definitely edge cases where two durations cannot
be compared and should throw
On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Jonathan Swartz wrote:
I guess this boils down to four choices:
1) give an arbitrary answer
2) give a reasonable answer that may depend on the current time (add both
durations to the current time and compare the resulting times)
3) give an answer if it is correct for
On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Dave Rolsky wrote:
I don't mind the idea of adding a compare() class method that accepts a
base datetime and uses DateTime-now, per Rick's suggestion.
I proposed something just short of this *months* ago and nobody even responded to my
RFC.
DT::Q could be either used by
(I am too stupid - I forgot to CC the list)
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Subject: Re: [Fwd: DateTime::Duration comparisions]
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 10:16:25 +0100
From: Max Maischein [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Dave Rolsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Dave
This was originally to Dave directly. A second mail with a tentative
patch that somewhat fixes the problem discussed below follows in a
second mail (that I also sent to Dave directly and will forward
separately). Please comment but CC me, as I don't follow the list!
-max
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On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Max Maischein wrote:
I saw in the CHANGES file that you added some other delta_* methods, but
didn't find them in the documentation, so I don't know about these, and
was too lazy to delve into the source for this :-)
These are for DateTime objects. I'm now regretting the
