Re: [Scheme-reports] r7rs-draft-6: identifiers looking as numbers Peter Bex (10 May 2012 08:11 UTC)
[Scheme-reports] Date/time package John Cowan (10 May 2012 16:56 UTC)
Re: Date/time package Arthur A. Gleckler (10 May 2012 17:09 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Date/time package Peter Bex (10 May 2012 18:54 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Date/time package John Cowan (10 May 2012 21:07 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Date/time package Peter Bex (10 May 2012 21:58 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Date/time package Alan Watson (10 May 2012 22:07 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Date/time package Noah Lavine (10 May 2012 22:41 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Date/time package John Cowan (11 May 2012 02:43 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Date/time package John Cowan (11 May 2012 02:16 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Date/time package Peter Bex (11 May 2012 10:05 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Date/time package Peter Bex (11 May 2012 10:13 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Date/time package John Cowan (11 May 2012 14:35 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Date/time package John J Foerch (10 May 2012 23:40 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Date/time package John Cowan (11 May 2012 03:01 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Date/time package John J Foerch (11 May 2012 04:37 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Date/time package John Cowan (11 May 2012 04:44 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Date/time package John J Foerch (11 May 2012 05:25 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Date/time package Daniel Villeneuve (11 May 2012 03:35 UTC)

Re: [Scheme-reports] r7rs-draft-6: identifiers looking as numbers Peter Bex 10 May 2012 08:06 UTC

On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 11:36:08PM -0400, Daniel Villeneuve wrote:
> We also have added a syntax for reading dates as first-class objects
> (such as 2012-05-09), because we manipulate dates and times nearly
> everywhere.

Hi, Daniel!

This sounds very interesting.  Is this date/time-manipulation code
publically available?

I think a comfortable, complete date/time-manipulation is one thing that
Scheme is sorely lacking.  We have SRFI-19, but it is a bit unwieldy and
not very complete. (how, for example, do you convert a given time in a
zone to another zone?  How do you go back a month? etc)

Cheers,
Peter
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