On Wed, 5 May 2010 23:22:06 -0700
gary ng <garyng2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
But that just boils down to a matter of taste, with your taste
determined by the industry that dominates your background. So wiring
it into a DSL is reasonable, and it would be nice if the system didn't
get in the way of doing so.
<mike
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