On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 10:34 PM, Meikel Brandmeyer <m...@kotka.de> wrote:

> I'm deeply suspicious of such a behaviour. Why would + on a
> date mean adding days? Why not hours? minutes? seconds?
> months? years? I would always prefer plus-days over such a
> behaviour, because I wouldn't have to think everytime, what +
> adds.
>
> But that is only a matter of taste, I fancy.
>
>
Convention, mostly. Say in the security trading settlement world, they use
terms like T+3 to mean transaction date + 3 days. Which is why I said, toy
DSL. It is used in an implicit context. Everyone in that business knows what
T+3 means. Just like we know what CC means when looking at email.

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