Re: [tools] Tools reeng

2016-11-22 Thread Claude Brisson
3) use explicit format names: numberFormat, timeFormat, dateFormat and timestampFormat, instead of a generic 'format' parameter defaulting to an ubiquitous 'default' value. I'd also like to have the default formats be the international formats used by HTML5 (RFC 3339). +1000 :-) The new

Re: [tools] Tools reeng

2016-11-21 Thread Christopher Schultz
Claude, On 11/17/16 12:58 PM, Claude Brisson wrote: > There are several things I'd like to do for the tools before releasing > them: > > 1) deprecate the ConversionTool: > - date formatting and parsing methods are redundant with (and less > complete than) DateTool ones. > - number

Re: [tools] Tools reeng

2016-11-17 Thread Nathan Bubna
+1 deprecate and refactor away. this all sounds good. On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 10:32 AM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote: > On 11/17/2016 12:58 PM, Claude Brisson wrote: > > There are several things I'd like to do for the tools before releasing > > them: > > > > 1) deprecate

Re: [tools] Tools reeng

2016-11-17 Thread Sergiu Dumitriu
On 11/17/2016 12:58 PM, Claude Brisson wrote: > There are several things I'd like to do for the tools before releasing > them: > > 1) deprecate the ConversionTool: > - date formatting and parsing methods are redundant with (and less > complete than) DateTool ones. > - number formatting

Re: [tools] Tools reeng

2016-11-17 Thread Claude Brisson
On 17/11/2016 19:10, Mike Kienenberger wrote: On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 12:58 PM, Claude Brisson wrote: There are several things I'd like to do for the tools before releasing them: 1) deprecate the ConversionTool: - the only remaining feature is a toStrings() method

Re: [tools] Tools reeng

2016-11-17 Thread Mike Kienenberger
On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 12:58 PM, Claude Brisson wrote: > There are several things I'd like to do for the tools before releasing them: > > 1) deprecate the ConversionTool: > - the only remaining feature is a toStrings() method (which does > splitting and optional

[tools] Tools reeng

2016-11-17 Thread Claude Brisson
There are several things I'd like to do for the tools before releasing them: 1) deprecate the ConversionTool: - date formatting and parsing methods are redundant with (and less complete than) DateTool ones. - number formatting and parsing methods are redundant with the NumberTool and