Esteban A. Maringolo
2014-09-02 17:46 GMT-03:00 Sven Van Caekenberghe <s...@stfx.eu>: > > On 02 Sep 2014, at 21:39, Esteban A. Maringolo <emaring...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Thank you. It is certainly better than the base parser. >> But for formats I can't pass Date objects to #format:, I have to >> convert them to ZTimestamp before. > > (ZTimestampFormat fromString: '2001/02/03') format: Date today. > > Can you give an example of what does not work for you ? My own brain doesn't work. I don't know what I did yesterday, but it works as expected now :) | format | format := (ZTimestampFormat fromString: '03/02/2001') createDate. format parse: '03/09/2014'. format format: Date today The only thing I'd change is to throw a specific Exception instead of an AssertionFailure. But I'm handling parsing errors fine with AssertionFailure handlers anyway. >> Curiosity #1: Why did you use an example date string instead of using >> regular patterns like yyyy, dd, hh/hh24, etc? > > That is why the formatter/parser was written in the first place ;-) It is > modelled after a Go standard library > (http://golang.org/src/pkg/time/format.go) and some Ruby library I can't > remember the name of. I implemented this as a proof of concept to see if/how > it could be done. Fair enough. :) Thank you!
