From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: String to Integer conversion?
Date: 1998/08/04
Date: 1998-08-04T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.902212278@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m3g1fgusb8.fsf@mheaney.ni.net
Matthew says
<<In my experience, the need for manipulation of Duration strings is
_very_ common. One thing I do quite often is to translate an
environment variable that represents the value of an entry call delay,
for example, or a timeout for I/O to an external device. This way I can
tune delays and timeouts without recompiling anything.
>>
Sure, no one contests that it is often useful to do I/O on Duration values,
but that observation is not enough to justify putting a predefined package
for this purpose. It is also useful to sort integers, or do a binary
search, or or or or or ..... but we do not expect there to be predefined
packages for all possible useful things in advance
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[not found] <c1.2b8.2Lzh62$03A@zesi.ruhr.de>
1998-07-31 0:00 ` String to Integer conversion? Matthew Heaney
1998-07-31 0:00 ` daniel gaudry
[not found] ` <6ndi5d$uj3@gcsin3.geccs.gecm.com>
1998-07-31 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-07-30 0:00 ` nabbasi
1998-08-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-08-01 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-08-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-08-02 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-08-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1998-08-04 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-08-04 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
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