On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Edouard Poor <[email protected]>wrote:
> I ran across this across this a couple week ago but didn't know whether to > enter a defect for it or not. > > "2 days" evaluates to a duration of 2 days but, > "2 day" evaluates to a duration of 1 day. > > I have to admit that sounds weird > I've been thinking about it, and I think I can understand who this came > about, but silently giving a user the wrong answer if they mistype "days" or > write some code like "[ :n | n day ]" (I did this one) seems wrong. If "day" > should only answer with the singular value, than perhaps it should throw an > exception for any values other than -1 or 1. > > I'd actually prefer it just called days, and damn English grammar. > > So what do you think, should I enter a defect or not? > > (Also I'm new to the community, so I wasn't even sure where I should ask a > question like this!) > > welcome!! yes, this is the perfect place to ask cheers mariano
