on Sat Sep 24 2011, Eric Abrahamsen <eric-AT-ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 24 2011, Dave Abrahams wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>>
>> I think the basic parts of such a language might be:
>>
>> - predicates, e.g. Mon,Wed,Fri; the first week of each month; the first
>>   tuesday of the month
>> - periods, e.g. 1 month
>> - repetitions, e.g. 5 times
>
> Looks like you're coming up on the crontab syntax :)

Good point.  I don't need a fancy syntax if I can express it with elisp,
of course.  Maybe enabling that would be a good first step.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
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