On 17 March 2010 13:13, Nicolas Cellier
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 2010/3/17 stephane ducasse <[email protected]>:
>> in Squeak
>>
>>        (aDateAndTime offset: '0:12:00:00') =  '1901-01-01T00:00:00+12:00'
>>        true
>>
>> in pharo
>>
>>        (aDateAndTime offset: '0:12:00:00') =  '1901-01-01T00:00:00+12:00'.
>>        false.
>>
>> Apparently the false in pharo comes from a bug in readFrom: in DateAndTime
>>
>> Now the question is does it make sense to have a DateAndTime = to its string 
>> representation.
>> For me I would prefer not
>>
>>        (aDateAndTime offset: '0:12:00:00') =  '1901-01-01T00:00:00+12:00'
>>        -> false
>>        (aDateAndTime offset: '0:12:00:00') printString  =  
>> '1901-01-01T00:00:00+12:00'
>>        -> true
>>
>> DateAndTime>>= comparand
>>        "comparand conforms to protocol DateAndTime,
>>        or can be converted into something that conforms."
>>        | comparandAsDateAndTime |
>>        self == comparand
>>                ifTrue: [^ true].
>>        comparandAsDateAndTime := [comparand asDateAndTime]
>>                on: MessageNotUnderstood
>>                do: [^ false].
>>        ^ self offset = comparandAsDateAndTime offset
>>                ifTrue: [self hasEqualTicks: comparandAsDateAndTime ]
>>                ifFalse: [self asUTC ticks = comparandAsDateAndTime asUTC 
>> ticks]
>>
>>
>> What do you think
>>
>>
>
> I would expect = to be
> "reflexive"       self assert: (a = a).
> "symmetric"   self assert: (a = b) ==> (b = a).
> "transitive"      self assert: (a = b) & (b = c) ==> (a = c).
>
yeah, as a Magnitude it should have such properties.

> Date>>= does not seem to meet my expectations
>
>> Stef
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