[kepler-dev] [Ptolemy] Re: DateToken

[Christopher Brooks]

Agreed.

I fixed up the code.

Many thanks to Patricia for her fix to the String problem.

Dan Crawl will work on the Kepler build, I'll set him up with write 
privis on the ptII tree shortly.

I think our work here on DateToken is pretty much complete.

_Christopher

On 6/23/14 2:48 PM, Marten Lohstroh wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 10:53 AM, Christopher Brooks
> <cxh at eecs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>> I added a convert() method to DateToken which seems to work well. I did hack
>> in a check for StringToken which will try to instantiate a DateToken.  I'm
>> not sure if that is right.
> This seems wrong to me. It is not generally possible to convert a
> String into a Date. Also, the type lattice doesn't permit that
> conversion. Type inference is supposed to yield a typing of which the
> automatic type conversions that it imposes during run time work
> without exception. We should not misuse the conversion method to build
> a customized parser.
>
> Marten
>
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