I'd be very happy if hour just returned the same as hours. I can also make the 
change, but I've never done one before, do I submit it to Pharo inbox?

On 24 Oct 2012, at 2:28pm, Camillo Bruni 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

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




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