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Re: Teach "approxidate" about weekday syntax

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Nov 18, 2005, 02:53 UTC
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Hi,
On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, Martin Langhoff wrote:
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> On 11/18/05, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> > On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > Seriously, I can't imagine what else we'd want.
> > An error when there's a chance the result is unexpected?
> 
> That'd be even harder to define -- I'd rather have it spit out what it
> interpreted so that porcelains can display it to the user. The user
> can tell at a glance if the parser is off -- for it will be off by a
> mile.

Yes, it may be off by a mile. But if there exists a feature to specify a date that comfortably, people don't RTFM, but use it.

Now comes the rub: if nothing is displayed, they take it that everything was fine. *If* something was displayed, one knew that the code parsed yesterday when last year was meant. But *if not*, nobody knows.

This is dangerous. It is wrong, but does not say so.

Hth, Dscho

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  1. Linus TorvaldsNov 17, 2005
  2. Nicolas PitreNov 17, 2005
  3. Johannes SchindelinNov 17, 2005
  4. Junio C HamanoNov 17, 2005
  5. Linus TorvaldsNov 17, 2005
  6. Linus TorvaldsNov 17, 2005
  7. David RoundyNov 18, 2005
  8. Johannes SchindelinNov 18, 2005
  9. Randy.DunlapNov 18, 2005
  10. Linus TorvaldsNov 18, 2005
  11. Junio C HamanoNov 19, 2005
  12. Andreas EricssonNov 19, 2005
  13. Randal L. SchwartzNov 19, 2005
  14. Linus TorvaldsNov 19, 2005
  15. Matthias UrlichsNov 18, 2005
  16. Johannes SchindelinNov 20, 2005
  17. H. Peter AnvinNov 18, 2005
  18. Linus TorvaldsNov 18, 2005
  19. Andreas EricssonNov 18, 2005
  20. Linus TorvaldsNov 18, 2005
  21. Johannes SchindelinNov 17, 2005
  22. Martin LanghoffNov 18, 2005
  23. Linus TorvaldsNov 18, 2005
  24. Johannes SchindelinNov 18, 2005
  25. H. Peter AnvinNov 17, 2005
  26. Linus TorvaldsNov 17, 2005

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