[Pharo-project] 2 days vs 2 day
I ran across this across this a couple week ago but didn't know whether to enter a defect for it or not. "2 days" evaluates to a duration of 2 days but, "2 day" evaluates to a duration of 1 day. I've been thinking about it, and I think I can understand who this came about, but silently giving a user the wrong answer if they mistype "days" or write some code like "[ :n | n day ]" (I did this one) seems wrong. If "day" should only answer with the singular value, than perhaps it should throw an exception for any values other than -1 or 1. I'd actually prefer it just called days, and damn English grammar. So what do you think, should I enter a defect or not? (Also I'm new to the community, so I wasn't even sure where I should ask a question like this!) Cheers, Edouard.
+ 1 The method makes _no_ sense at all. On 26 Feb 2011, at 10:40, Edouard Poor wrote:
I've been thinking about it, and I think I can understand who this came about, but silently giving a user the wrong answer if they mistype "days" or write some code like "[ :n | n day ]" (I did this one) seems wrong. If "day" should only answer with the singular value, than perhaps it should throw an exception for any values other than -1 or 1.
I'd actually prefer it just called days, and damn English grammar.
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Edouard Poor <edouard.lists@gmail.com>wrote:
I ran across this across this a couple week ago but didn't know whether to enter a defect for it or not.
"2 days" evaluates to a duration of 2 days but, "2 day" evaluates to a duration of 1 day.
I have to admit that sounds weird
I've been thinking about it, and I think I can understand who this came about, but silently giving a user the wrong answer if they mistype "days" or write some code like "[ :n | n day ]" (I did this one) seems wrong. If "day" should only answer with the singular value, than perhaps it should throw an exception for any values other than -1 or 1.
I'd actually prefer it just called days, and damn English grammar.
So what do you think, should I enter a defect or not?
(Also I'm new to the community, so I wasn't even sure where I should ask a question like this!)
welcome!! yes, this is the perfect place to ask cheers mariano
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Mariano Martinez Peck