Re: Passing Time via RCI

["Jean-Pierre Rosen" <rosen.adalog@wanadoo.fr>]

Marc A. Criley a écrit dans le message <34D70B78.6503@lmco.com>...
>Samuel Tardieu wrote:
>> 
>> >>>>> "Marc" == Marc A Criley <marc.a.criley@lmco.com> writes:
>> 
>> Marc> Do I have to define my own time type?  And write my own time
>> Marc> utilities?  Or do an Unchecked_Conversion from Time to some byte
>> Marc> array I define, pass it, then convert it back?
>> 
>> That's a bad idea to do an unchecked conversion to an array of bytes,
>> since it won't work in heterogeneous environments (bytes won't get
>> swapped in the case of an array, while they should if they represent a
>> time). You should probably define your own time type.
>
>Yeah, Unchecked_Conversion is way down on my list of palatable
>solutions, though the network on which it'd be used is homogeneous.
>It just strikes me as almost an oversight that I have all these Time
>oriented utilities and I can't simply use them because there's no
>straightforward way to pass time around.  Another option I've got
>is to Split the time, type convert the Year, Month, etc into my
>own types, pass these, convert them back to Calendar.Year, etc.,
>and use Time_Of to rebuild the time.  And still...
>
Why don't you simply pass it as a string ? All  you need is a simple package to convert times to/from strings. Everybody has such a  package (if you don't have it, write it quickly (or I'll send you mine), since it is useful in many occasions).