This one time, at band camp, O Plameras wrote: >>You've said "let's overload plus for time to mean we add a whole day". >>Andre and myself have said "picking 'one day' for what adding an integer to >>a time means is arbitraty and unobvious to anyone but the person who first >>decided it." >> > >Then ask, if unobvious; don't jump to conclusions.
I *was* asking; not "what does 1 mean in this context" but "why did you pick 1 to mean 1 day out of any of the other possible meanings here?" and trying to lead you into the idea that thinking "1 means 1 day" isn't necessarily going to be obvious or useful to anyone else. >>I'm strongly of the opinion that time types are not good types to overload >>like this. >> > >Value judging is a debate that never ends with no winners and/or losers. >I'll not engage >you in that. This isn't a value judgement (unless this is a whimsical pun on the overloading of the term 'value', in which case lol). I'm trying very hard to give you good evidence why *this particular case* of overloading is not a good idea. _______________________________________________ coders mailing list coders@slug.org.au http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/coders
