Make dur a property?

[Nick Sabalausky]

On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 21:33:07 +0100
Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com> wrote:
> 
> This is how it should look like. Date ranges in Ruby on Rails can be 
> really beautiful:
> 
> date = 2.days.ago
> 

Honestly, I really don't like that. It trades clear semantics for a
bunch of magic to achieve the dubious goal of making code look more
like English (a notably high-ambiguity language). If I valued languages
imitating English, I'd be doing everything in HyperCard or COBOL or
some other such design blunder.