[plt-dev] SRFI 19 - parsing years from human input

All good here!

-- Dave

On 10 Mar 2010, at 19:05, Jay McCarthy <jay.mccarthy at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 8:55 AM, Dave Gurnell  
> <d.j.gurnell at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Here's a first attempt at this.
>> I've added a "~?" wildcard, so named because:
>> - all letters with the exception of ~g, ~o, and ~q are already used  
>> in
>> date->string;
>> - ~g, ~o and ~q seemed inappropriate (although adding my own  
>> initial to the
>> library was momentarily attractive);
>> - ~? implies an appropriate uncertainty about the number of digits  
>> in the
>> year.
>> Not sure whether I've edited the right file for the
>> documentation... presumably the SRFI pages are standard across all
>> implementations. Could use some feedback on that.
>
> I think what you did is fine.
>
> I'll wait until after the next release (Eli just sent the message) and
> commit, if there are no objections, is that okay for you?
>
> Jay
>
>> I've also realised that none of the ~y, ~Y or ~? wildcards will  
>> recognise
>> negative years. Not sure if this is a bug - I can correct this too  
>> if need
>> be.
>> I've attached the following files in a ZIP archive:
>>
>> complete source of $PLTHOME/collects/srfi/19/time.ss
>>
>> complete source of $PLTHOME/collects/tests/srfi/19/tests.ss
>>
>> complete source of $PLTHOME/doc/srfi-std/srfi-19.html
>>
>> output from "svn diff"
>>
>> Comments and corrections welcome.
>> Cheers,
>> -- Dave
>>
>>
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