On 4/9/2010 4:53 AM, Moritz Lenz wrote:
Am 09.04.2010 13:34, schrieb Mark J. Reed:
The date still corresponds to an actual day. If I set it to Feb 31, I
should get back Mar 2 or 3 depending on the year. While I'm having
trouble thinking of a good specific example, it's a capability I've
taken advantage of many times, in holiday calculations, calendar
conversions, and such. I believe it's Python's datetime module that
has unchecked_* methods for the purpose.
Maybe in p6 the setters could do the correction if the exception is
resumed?
Too much magic. Sounds to me like you want a named parameter for a
setter, like :force or :unchecked or so.
Anyway, I'm not sure such a feature needs to be in the core, at least
not in 6.0.0.
Unless forming a duration based on various units is really simple,
un-checked setters makes generating new Instants from one ones simpler.
It is very useful to be able to implement the operators tomorrow,
yesterday, thirty_days_from_now, twelve_hours_ago, etc, just by
incrementing through the appropriate setter, especially in one-liners.
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