time package - parsing of incorrect data
Paolo Losi
paolo.losi at gmail.com
Tue May 26 05:11:20 EDT 2009
Ashley Yakeley wrote:
> Possibly it should use instead "validating constructors" that return a
> Maybe type.
I'm totally in favour of "validating constructors", also for Day values
(as an alternative to silent truncation).
I guess it would also be useful to differentiate between strict parsing
errors (wrong format of the data) and unvalid fields (hour > 24).
Ashley, please let me know if you need some "code monkey" help.
Thanks
Paolo
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