Jim,
Love it.

---> "portmanteau functions" ??

cheers,
Helen

At 06:55 PM 29-10-01 -0500, Jim Starkey wrote:

>I've just implemented a cute hack: the manefest constants
>"thismonth", "thisyear", and "thisday" in date string.
>The conversion code recognizes things of the forms:
>
> thismonth [+/- <number>]
> thisyear [+/- <number>]
> thisday [+/- <number>]
>
>in date strings where a month, year, or day could otherwise be
>used.
>
>"thismonth 1" is the first of this month
>"thismonth+1 0" is the last of this month
>"thismonth thisday+7" is next week
>"thismonth 0" is the last day of last month
>"thismonth+2 25" is Chrismas (if you read this in Oct.)
>"thismonth" is the last day of last month (think about it)
>
>obvious the normal validation checking is turned off -- month,
>yea years, rollover as required.
>
>Ann is lobbying for "thisquarter" as well. The jury is still out
>on that one.
>
>Thoughts? Comments? Love it? Hate it?
>
>Jim Starkey
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