RE: [Pyatcron-devel-list] Some comments on Brian code

[Julien Olivier]

On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 21:59, Childers, Matthew wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Julien Olivier [mailto:address@hidden
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 1:36 PM
> > To: address@hidden
> > Subject: Re: [Pyatcron-devel-list] Some comments on Brian code
> > 
> > 
> > > Actually, they expect strings. My reasoning behind that was that
> cron
> > > accepts ranges (e.g. 2-5), lists (e.g. 1,2,3), step values (e.g.
> */5)
> > > and so on. So, are we not going to have those kinds of
> functionality?
> > > And what about the default value of '*'? If implemented as an
> integer,
> > > would we just use 0 for that?
> > 
> > I guess it should be possible to "emulate" all that functionalities
> > using string arrays, isn't it ?
> > 
> 
> That is a good point Brian.  I would imagine we would just need to
> accept strings.  Not necessarily string arrays, since we should be able
> to set all the options for a value with one string.

Really, I don't see how it is harder to use int arrays instead of "*",
or "2-5", as it is just a "human" representation of an array of
integers, nothing more. For example, if you want to say "all the days of
the week except from the 5th one", you could write "*/5" or
"1,2,3,4,6,7". For a computer program, it's easier to handle this
information if it stored as an array containing {1,2,3,4,6,7} than in a
string containing "*/5", IMO at least.

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Julien Olivier <address@hidden>