On 24 Aug 2010, at 13:51, Guillermo Polito wrote:

> Thinking aloud.  I usually don't have to write dates in my code,
> because they are picked by the user.
> I think that a well built kernel and nice well integrated UI widgets
> (maybe I'm going out of the scope :P ) are enough in most of the
> cases.

+1 
I like the libraries that support to write dates and times in neat Smalltalk 
ways, but they should not compromise the use of date-times when handling 
strings coming from the UI front-end. Having a 'xxxx' asString that does not 
return an error when the timestring is wrong cripples that. You would 
essentially need to use a separate parser-checker before trying to use the 
basic conversion libraries for date-times.

> Anyway, IMHO it's very important to review Time>>fromString: because
> it's useful for serialization stuff.  Like webservices and that kind
> of things a lot of people have to use.
> 
> I opened a ticket http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=2854

+1
Are you already onto it? If not, I can make my hands dirty on this one ;-)



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