From: Yossef Mendelssohn <ymendel@...>
Date: 2007-10-25T11:25:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Time Window (#144)



On Oct 24, 9:16 am, James Edward Gray II <ja...@grayproductions.net>
wrote:
> On Oct 24, 2007, at 9:10 AM, Ken Bloom wrote:
>
>
>
> > On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 10:04:56 +0900, James Koppel wrote:
>
> >> Here's my solution. It converts atimewindowinto an array of
> >> arrays of
> >> ranges. Each range matches an interval oftime(e.g.: 500..1700);
> >> each
> >> subarray contains all the ranges for a given day. I then wrote the
> >> simple Array#some method that returns true if the given predicate
> >> returns true for at least one of its elements, which I used to write
> >> TimeWindow#incude?.
>
> >> $days = {"Sun"=>0,
> >>               "Mon"=>1,
> >>               "Tue"=>2,
> >>               "Wed"=>3,
> >>               "Thu"=>4,
> >>               "Fri"=>5,
> >>               "Sat"=>6}
>
> > I suggest using a constant rather than a global variable for this. You
> > can put the constant in the TimeWindow class.
>
> This is also just an Array disguised as a Hash.
>
> James Edward Gray II

It could be a lot worse.  Which of us hasn't run across something like
this?

days = {
  0 => 'Sun',
  1 => 'Mon',
  2 => 'Tue',
  3 => 'Wed',
  4 => 'Thu',
  5 => 'Fri',
  6 => 'Sat',
}

--
-yossef