I thought we had this discussion in some other thread and because scala-time wasn't 1.0 there was a general reluctancy to use it? We could cherry pick some of the code however; im sure Jorge wouldn't mind :-)
Cheers, Tim On 16 Oct 2009, at 11:30, Charles F. Munat wrote: > > You have looked at Scala Time, right? I think some of this may already > be implemented there, and it would probably be better to extend that > rather than reinvent it. But maybe I'm thinking about something else? > > http://github.com/jorgeortiz85/scala-time > > Chas. > > Derek Chen-Becker wrote: >> Oh, I plan on incorporating the DSL. My thought was that JodaHelpers >> would define most of the same methods as TimeHelpers, just >> operating on >> DateTime instead of Date and Calendar. Then you could do >> >> import ...Helpers._ >> import ...JodaHelpers._ >> >> and the latter import would mask the TimeHelpers methods. Or you >> could >> just import JodaHelpers by itself. Actually, Joda Time has some very >> nice facilities for doing intervals that would simplify the DSLs a >> lot >> and possibly make it richer. >> >> Derek >> >> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 7:19 PM, David Pollak >> <feeder.of.the.be...@gmail.com >> <mailto:feeder.of.the.be...@gmail.com>> >> wrote: >> >> I personally like the DSLs that TimeHelpers provides. I'd hate to >> see it deprecated or go away without the ability to write 30 >> seconds >> later using some other DSL. >> >> >> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Derek Chen-Becker >> <dchenbec...@gmail.com <mailto:dchenbec...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> Well, actually, maybe I'll just make a JodaHelpers with the >> applicable methods on it and we can just deprecate the entire >> TimeHelpers object. If anyone else has a better idea I'm all >> ears. >> >> Derek >> >> >> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Derek Chen-Becker >> <dchenbec...@gmail.com <mailto:dchenbec...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> OK, will do. >> >> >> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 5:18 PM, David Pollak >> <feeder.of.the.be...@gmail.com >> <mailto:feeder.of.the.be...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> I'd prefer not the break the apis without deprecating >> them first >> >> >> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Derek Chen-Becker >> <dchenbec...@gmail.com <mailto:dchenbec...@gmail.com>> >> wrote: >> >> Just asking, since I'm looking at bolting a lot of >> java.util.Date methods onto the innards of >> TimeHelpers so that the specs pass. >> >> Derek >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Lift, the simply functional web framework http://liftweb.net >> Beginning Scala http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219890 >> Follow me: http://twitter.com/dpp >> Surf the harmonics >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Lift, the simply functional web framework http://liftweb.net >> Beginning Scala http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219890 >> Follow me: http://twitter.com/dpp >> Surf the harmonics >> >> >> >> >>> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to liftweb@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
