yes! I did not say anything the last time because I did not want to break the fun.
> > > 2010/8/23 Marcus Denker <[email protected]> > > On Aug 23, 2010, at 9:40 AM, laurent laffont wrote: >> >> >> Indeed I don't like '2010/08/01' asTime, but I like 3 seconds. >> > > And I think the reason is the following: > > '2010/08/01' asTime > > this is just code... "string, you smalltalk object, please convert yourself > into an object of another class that > you normally should know too much about". No reason why not to ask the Time > class: hey, time, > I have a string, can you make a time for me? And it's even nicer... Time > knows about time, string > about being a string. > > > Yes. So I think I should avoid to show 'http://www.google.com' asUrl in > pharocasts...... > > > Laurent > > > > > BUT: > > 1 second + 3 hours > > This is different. This is a *domain specific language* for dealing with > time. When you read that, you do > not think in term of general smalltalk code for coverting between classes. We > are (kind of) outside of > our language model and the rules we normally follow do not apply. (e.g. there > is no hour and second class...). > > Domain specific languages are powerful, and one can abuse them very easily. > (am guilty of having written once some awful DSL where even the *name* of a > block > parameter had semantic meaning ;-) > > Marcus > > -- > Marcus Denker -- http://www.marcusdenker.de > INRIA Lille -- Nord Europe. Team RMoD. > > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
