did you check acancagua (unit and time) or chronos (more complete calendar) package
Stef On Nov 13, 2013, at 9:19 AM, Bahman Movaqar <bah...@bahmanm.com> wrote: > On 11/13/2013 11:39, Bahman Movaqar wrote: >> On 11/13/2013 11:13, Bahman Movaqar wrote: >>> Let's say I have a method with signature in a language like Java as below: >>> gregorianDayToJulianDay(year, month, day) >>> >>> What could be a proper naming for this method in Smalltalk? I'm a bit >>> confused as I'm so used to the concept of methods being "verbs" which >>> accept some arguments. >>> >>> I'd appreciate any help/idea. > > After reading Sven's reply, I came up with this design. Is it the > idiomatic way to handle this problem in Smalltalk: > > <pseudo-design> > class JulianConverter: > instance variable: 'day' > > #toGregorian > #toIranian > > class GregorianConverter: > instance variable: 'year month day' > > #toJulian > > class IranianConverter: > instance variable: 'year month day' > > #toJulian > > </pseudo-design> > > -- > Bahman Movaqar (http://BahmanM.com) > > ERP Evaluation, Implementation & Deployment Consultant > PGP Key ID: 0x6AB5BD68 (keyserver2.pgp.com) > >