From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2004-03-26T02:20:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Thinking about a date-matching algorithm...

Matthew Lipper wrote:
> I sent a response last week to the ML, but it seems to that it did not
> make it to this news group. I know it's sort of old news at this point
> (pardon the pun) but I'm curious.
> 
> Hal, did you (or anyone else) get a chance to take a look at Runt? 
> 
> I agree with Mauricio's characterization of naming conventions and
> expression usage and regret to say that the Runt codebase labors under
> this heaviness.
> 
> Your discussion hints at the same point Fowler made in his paper;
> namely, that temporal expressions are a simple application of GoF's
> Interpreter. As was mentioned, some syntactic sweetening would
> definitely go a long way.
> 
> Although Runt has mainly been a learning exercise, I'd be interested
> in whatever feedback anyone could provide.

I did look at it, but got sidetracked by looking at the iCalendar code
by Sam Roberts.

I'd be interested in pursuing this further, but why don't we take it
to email?

Hal