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[REBOL] Re: [date date! month month-bounds] MONTH-BOUNDS func design

From: gregg::pointillistic::com at: 29-Jan-2008 0:11

Hi Carl, CR> I'd go for always... if leap-year? now [...] That's my inclination as well, though not how I first did it a long time ago.
>>Starting today, what do you have to do to get a list of all dates in >>the current month?
CR> That's why days-in-month is needed. It doesn't explain why you CR> need the month-bounds block. If I had days-in-month, I'd do it CR> something like this... CR> today: now CR> repeat day days-in-month today [today/day: day print today/date] That lets you act on each day in a month and, yes, days-in-month is good for that, but it doesn't *give you* a list of days. To do that, you have to run that logic and collect the values yourself, every time you want that list of dates. CR> How would month-bounds inprove on that? range month-bounds now
>>Or how do you compare a date to see if it was last month,
CR> Currently, like so... CR> date: now date/month: date/month - 1 CR> if all [foo/year = date/year foo/month = date/month][...] CR> I'm open to the idea that month-bounds would improve on that. How CR> would it be used to do it? find range last-month foo Or like you did, but with more abstraction all [foo >= first last-month foo <= last last-month] And of course, helpers can help between? first last-month last last-month foo
>>or in any given date range?
CR> How would month-bounds help you with that? CR> I'd use... CR> if all [date >= low-date date <= high-date][...] Where we're leading is in-range? last-month foo or in-bounds? last-month foo People may recall my RANGE and BOUNDS funcs. With all the rich types we have in REBOL, we don't have any span/range type(s). I haven't campaigned hard, or successfully, for them, but I think there's a lot of value in them. It they aren't built in, the next question is how best to create them at the mezzanine level.
>>In the case of month-bounds, let's say a user can say "find me all the >>files that were added/updated between x and y". Given dates, or just a >>month name (files updated in jan-2008), we need the time detail to >>catch everything.
CR> But only for the end of the month, since...
>>> 1-jan-2008 = 1-jan-2008/0:0:0
CR> == true only for the end of the month would be kind of critical to that kind of query though, yes? :) -- Gregg