On 03 Sep 2014, at 15:44, Esteban A. Maringolo <emaring...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 OK > 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. Yes, using #assert: was laziness in the prototyping phase, I try to improve that part. >>> 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!
