Re: Fun with dates...
Re: Fun with dates...
- Subject: Re: Fun with dates...
- From: Matt Neuburg <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 10:12:50 -0700
On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 19:11:20 -0400, David Marshall <email@hidden> said:
>On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Matt Neuburg wrote:
>
>> So on p. 268 of my book: "A string may be used to form a date specifier, but
>> it cannot be coerced to a date." I spent months testing this sort of thing so
>> you don't have to! (At least, I think I did; it was so painful that I've now
>> blocked it all out of my mind.) m.
>
>While most of us undoubtedly appreciate your months of testing (I know
>I certainly do!), it really shouldn't surprise you that others share
>your scientific curiosity even if their experimental methods are less
>rigorous or their hypotheses less well-informed. Expecting others to be
>content accepting anomalies because "Matt says it's so" would be a bit
>like a parent expecting a child to "avoid any mistakes I made when I
>was your age."
I merely meant to mention that my book can be helpful here to beginning
users of AS, who might not be clear on the underlying linguistic fact that
object specifiers and coercions are two very different things. It's true
that my book does not say (after the above-quoted sentence) "this is an
intolerable outrage", but I think we're all adult enough to draw our own
conclusions. I don't expect anyone to "accept anomalies"; on the contrary, I
urge you to write your congressperson about the lack of a string-to-date
coercion. Of course if you want to waste time typing "s as date" over and
over and not having it work, far be it from me stop you. m.
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