[REBOL] Re: On mutability and sameness
From: holger:rebol at: 12-Jun-2001 9:05
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 09:11:00AM -0500, Joel Neely wrote:
> The oddity I described appears to reside in the /DATE "refinement"
> itself, based on this:
>
> >> a: now == 6-Jun-2001/9:05:53-5:00
> >> a/date == 6-Jun-2001
> >> a/date/date == 6-Jun-2001
> >> a/date/date/date/date/date/day == 6
>
> so that /DATE behaves less like a component selector and more like
> a function that takes a (complete) DATE! value and returns another
> DATE! value with the TIME! component set to none.
Yes, but, by definition, the date component of a date! value is
another date! value, so /date returns what it is supposed to. REBOL
does not use different datatypes for "date without time" and "date
with time". They are both of type date!.
--
Holger Kruse
[holger--rebol--com]
