the current implementation does not make any sense. despite the grammatical correctness of (1 hour) and the implied mistake of (2 hour). I think we should change or remove it!
https://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=6876 On 2012-10-24, at 14:52, Fabrizio Perin <[email protected]> wrote: > If it not use I don't know but the message > 1 hour yes, but technically 0.5 hour is correct (though silly it does not work properly..) > makes sense to me. > > cheers, > Fabrizio > > 2012/10/24 Santiago Bragagnolo <[email protected]> > >> I found almost no senders of #Number>>hour, and also have not sense at >> all. Probably we want to remove it. >> >> >> 2012/10/24 Joe Rickerby <[email protected]> >> >>> I can't believe I'd be the first person to find this, so sorry if this >>> has been discussed before. >>> >>> I was writing some code today, using Durations. I've come across the >>> hour/hours methods before, and so I know that '2 hour' is really one hour, >>> and that you have to write '2 hours' to have the thing work as expected. >>> >>> It's a little strict for the language to do this, but I can see the logic. >>> >>> What doesn't work for me is when I write '0.5 hour' or '(1/2) hour'. Both >>> will return a duration of 1 hour. In my head I pronounce this 'half an >>> hour', so it's an entirely reasonable thing to write. >>> >>> Can something be done about this? >>> >>> Joe
