From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 6/9] lib: add date range query support
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 13:10:50 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87obl4fx4l.fsf@convex-new.cs.unb.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xa1tipbczo68.fsf@mina86.com>
Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> writes:
> On Thu, Sep 13 2012, David Bremner wrote:
>> I don't find ranges being half-open by default to be very
>> intuitive. Perhaps I don't program in python enough.
[snip]
> date:2012/01/01..2012/01/01 + 1 day
>
> in my opinion, that should give results from the first of January only,
> since “+ 1 day” indicates in a way how long user want the period to be.
Sorry, still not convinced. My comment about python was more or less a
joke; I get the analogy with C, but (1) I don't think C is a reasonable
UI guide, and (2), at least in the C case, the half openness of the
range is explicitly given by the operators used.
d
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-17 16:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-12 21:27 [PATCH v3 0/9] notmuch search date:since..until query support Jani Nikula
2012-09-12 21:27 ` [PATCH v3 1/9] build: drop the -Wswitch-enum warning Jani Nikula
2012-09-12 21:27 ` [PATCH v3 2/9] parse-time-string: add a date/time parser to notmuch Jani Nikula
2012-09-13 11:10 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2012-09-13 12:07 ` Jani Nikula
2012-09-17 14:13 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2012-09-17 15:54 ` Jani Nikula
2012-09-13 12:48 ` Tomi Ollila
2012-09-25 11:56 ` Michal Sojka
2012-10-03 18:49 ` Jani Nikula
2012-10-03 19:02 ` Michal Sojka
2012-09-12 21:27 ` [PATCH v3 3/9] test: add new test tool parse-time for date/time parser Jani Nikula
2012-09-12 21:27 ` [PATCH v3 4/9] test: add smoke tests for the date/time parser module Jani Nikula
2012-09-25 12:05 ` [PATCH] test: Improve " Michal Sojka
2012-10-03 20:32 ` Jani Nikula
2012-10-04 11:02 ` Michal Sojka
2012-09-12 21:27 ` [PATCH v3 5/9] build: build parse-time-string as part of the notmuch lib and static cli Jani Nikula
2012-09-12 21:27 ` [PATCH v3 6/9] lib: add date range query support Jani Nikula
2012-09-13 11:14 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2012-09-13 11:32 ` Tomi Ollila
2012-09-13 13:33 ` Jani Nikula
2012-09-17 15:11 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2012-09-13 12:32 ` David Bremner
2012-09-17 15:03 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2012-09-17 15:35 ` Tomi Ollila
2012-09-17 16:10 ` David Bremner [this message]
2012-09-25 12:15 ` Michal Sojka
2012-09-12 21:27 ` [PATCH v3 7/9] test: add tests for date:since..until range queries Jani Nikula
2012-09-12 21:27 ` [PATCH v3 8/9] man: document the " Jani Nikula
2012-09-12 21:27 ` [PATCH v3 9/9] NEWS: date range search support Jani Nikula
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