Have you considered to include Hern�n Wilkinson and Maximiliano Taborda's packages�Aconcagua and Chalten in Pharo Dev?

Chalten is a great��Time framework and�much better than the ansi Smalltalk 80's Time class, even with the addition of Duration.�And it represents the Minute and Second concepts along with Month, Day, DayOfMonth, MonthOfYear, etc. :)

With Chalten you could simply write: December second, 2005.

If you want to try them, just evaluate:

Gofer new

squeaksource: 'Chalten';

package: 'Chalten';

load.

Cheers,

Mariano.

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 5:45 AM, St�phane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse@inria.fr> wrote:

3 seconds is indeed better.
Right now we are talking about string over extension.

Stef

On Aug 23, 2010, at 9:00 AM, Brent Pinkney wrote:

>> I would really like to have the approach proposed by K. Beck on conversion
>> methods. Conversion methods for API compatible objects. Of course it will
>> lead to less compact program (URL readFrom: 'http://' instead of 'http://'
>> url) but avoids a lot of code in String (of course class extensions limit
>> the plague).
>
> Hi, please reconsider this. There is just no way (Duration seconds: 3) is
> better than '3 seconds'.
>
> This smacks of working for the computer instead of the other way around.
>
> Brent
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