From: Trans <transfire@...>
Date: 2005-03-25T01:29:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Facets 0.6.2


Francis Hwang wrote:
> Thanks for that. Can I humbly suggest that Numeric#ago be changed to
> Numeric#before? If we're trying to mimic English, you'd never say "10

> days ago yesterday" in English, but you would say "10 days before
> yesterday". So instead of making people call
>
> 10.days.ago( Time.now - 1.day )
>
> they could call
>
> 10.days.before( Time.now - 1.day )
>
> instead. And if Time.yesterday and Time.tomorrow had been defined,
you
> could simply call
>
> 10.days.before Time.yesterday
>
> And maybe this would cause transitional issues, but it might be good
to
> redefine Numeric#ago to refer to a time relative to the current
moment,
> which is in line with what it means in English.
>
> yesterday = 1.day.ago
> last_monday = 8.days.ago
>
> Similarly, Numeric#later could go the other way:
>
> tomorrow = 1.day.later
> next_tuesday = 6.days.later
>
> And Numeric#after could add time to any arbitrary starting point:
>
> three_days_later = 2.days.after Time.tomorrow
>
> I'd submit patches for these, but they're all pretty easy.

All done. And no transistional issues to speak-of. Expect them with the
next release (Probably a few weeks from now).

T.