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> 2010/8/23 Marcus Denker <
marcus.denker@inria.fr>
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> On Aug 23, 2010, at 9:40 AM, laurent laffont wrote:
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>>
>> Indeed ��I don't like ��'2010/08/01' asTime, but I like 3 seconds.
>>
>
> And I think the reason is the following:
>
> ��'2010/08/01' asTime
>
> this is just code... "string, you smalltalk object, please convert yourself into an object of another class that
> you normally should know too much about". No reason why not to ask the Time class: hey, time,
> I have a string, can you make a time for me? And it's even nicer... Time knows about time, string
> about being a string.
>
>
> Yes. So I think I should avoid to show '
http://www.google.com' asUrl in pharocasts......
>
>
> Laurent
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>
>
>
> BUT:
>
> 1 second + 3 hours
>
> This is different. This is a *domain specific language* for dealing with time. When you read that, you do
> not think in term of general smalltalk code for coverting between classes. We are (kind of) outside of
> our language model and the rules we normally follow do not apply. (e.g. there is no hour and second class...).
>
> Domain specific languages are powerful, and one can abuse them very easily.
> (am guilty of having written once some awful DSL where even the *name* of a block
> parameter had semantic meaning ;-)
>
> �� �� �� �� ��Marcus
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