Re: [Help-smalltalk] Patch for parsing dates and time

[Maarten van Beek]

Here's the new patch, I removed the unused variables and added extra
tests which consisting of the tests that are expected to fail.

Maarten van Beek

On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Holger Hans Peter Freyther
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> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 10:24:56PM +0200, Maarten van Beek wrote:
>> The attached patch accepts negative dates and doesn't use position:
>> anymore. I've removed the test cases that weren't possible to succeed
>> because of this. This includes some test cases for DateTime, where
>> DateTime skips over all separators to see if there's any usable
>> content left. These separators are thrown away.
>
> Hi,
>
> in general it is good to test what can be parsed and what can not
> be parsed. E.g. if someone wants to parse 09:00::1234 as 9:00 and
> it fails it easy to point him to the testcase that excludes this
> behavior, Pharo1.4 will throw an exception when parsing the above
> string as a Time, I think it would be acceptable to do the same.
>
> Somehow I am not able to quote the attachment from within mutt but
> you have some unused variables (e.g. you added 'pos' but don't make
> use of it).
>
> For Paolo I have included the diff of expout to stdout when using
> the right stream for parsing and then comparing what is left inside
> the stream. Maarten's test results are already a lot better.
>
> holger
>
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