Time span literal

[Daniel Leuck]

Hi Jesse,

 

The reason it's setup that way is that xx:xx is extremely ambiguous.  It
could be minutes and seconds, hours and minutes, a time, etc.  When prefixed
with a date, its clear that you are dealing with hours and minutes rather
than minutes and seconds.  One of SDL's design goals is that the literals be
clear and unambiguous, even if you don't know the language spec.

 

Dan

 

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From: Jesse Weaver [mailto:pianohacker at gmail.com] 
Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2006 9:18 AM
To: SDL_Developers
Subject: Time span literal

 

Could we change the time span literal so that it doesn't require seconds, to
be consistent with the date/time literal? Or is there a good reason for the
difference?

-- 
Jesse

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