On Tue, 27 Dec 2016 15:45:00 +0100 Mattias Andrée <[email protected]> wrote:
Hey Mattias, > I have withdrawn this proposal. > > But the idea of having multiple arguments is that you > can write for example “1h 30m”, of course, this is not > important is you can just as well write “90m”, and in > case where the calculations are that simple you can > use expr(1), but implementing it didn't really complicate > anything and brings compatibility. thanks for the clarification! > Waits shorted that 1s is useful in things like rc-scripts > that need to wait for a short period. And longer waits > are useful in cases like if you are setting up a simple > alarm if you want to take a short rest, or if you have > a lot of things running in different terminals (because > you want to see the output of each) but you don't want > all of the to run a the same time. yes this makes sense. The question is if we really want the added complexity. It's a trade-off which needs to be worth it. The multiple arguments + time-suffixes look quite elegant and useful, however, maybe we need to derivate strtonum to allow "retrieving" the end-pointer to make the code even simpler. Cheers Laslo -- Laslo Hunhold <[email protected]>
