As an off topic of 3 seconds... Have you considered to include Hernán Wilkinson and Maximiliano Taborda's packages Aconcagua and Chalten in Pharo Dev?
Chalten is a great Time framework and much better than the ansi Smalltalk 80's Time class, even with the addition of Duration. And it represents the Minute and Second concepts along with Month, Day, DayOfMonth, MonthOfYear, etc. :) With Chalten you could simply write: December second, 2005. If you want to try them, just evaluate: Gofer new squeaksource: 'Chalten'; package: 'Chalten'; load. Cheers, Mariano. On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 5:45 AM, Stéphane Ducasse <[email protected] > wrote: > 3 seconds is indeed better. > Right now we are talking about string over extension. > > Stef > > On Aug 23, 2010, at 9:00 AM, Brent Pinkney wrote: > > >> I would really like to have the approach proposed by K. Beck on > conversion > >> methods. Conversion methods for API compatible objects. Of course it > will > >> lead to less compact program (URL readFrom: 'http://' instead of > 'http://' > >> url) but avoids a lot of code in String (of course class extensions > limit > >> the plague). > > > > Hi, please reconsider this. There is just no way (Duration seconds: 3) is > > better than '3 seconds'. > > > > This smacks of working for the computer instead of the other way around. > > > > Brent > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 >
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