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From: ori@eigenstate.org
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] Upas: Complete date library conversion.
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2020 18:51:04 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <02FE2FEF065AEC3B39902C5D0AF46C73@eigenstate.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200920014650.GA15162@alice>

> ori@eigenstate.org once said:
>>  When parsing, this makes the following argument match fuzzily.
>> +When formatting, this is ignored.
>>  Fuzzy matching means that all formats are tried, from most to least specific.
>>  For example,
> 
> The word "fuzzily" is a bit silly and this rule is not like
> approximate string matching nor fuzzy logic.
> 
> How about:
> 
> 	When parsing, all formats of the following argument are tried
> 	from most to least specific. For example, ?M will match January,
> 	Jan, 01, and 1, in that order. When formatting, this is ignored.
> 
> Cheers,
>   Anthony

I like that much better, thanks!

If there are revisions to the diff, I'll roll them in, if not,
it'll be in the commit.



  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-20  1:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-19 18:53 ori
2020-09-19 18:55 ` [9front] " ori
2020-09-20  0:38   ` ori
2020-09-20  1:46     ` Anthony Martin
2020-09-20  1:51       ` ori [this message]
2020-09-20  3:34         ` ori

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