Make dur a property?

[Nick Sabalausky]

On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 09:52:38 +0100
Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com> wrote:

> On 2013-01-24 00:16, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> 
> > I'll certainly grant that, insofar as the written order is backwards
> > from the execution order. I think the "ago" is that part that bugs
> > me the most. It's too clever. I could live with "2.days", but I'd
> > prefer "days(2)" since that looks like a type constructor, and
> > "days" isn't a property of 2. Maybe "2.toDays()", but at that point
> > I'd still rather just do the simpler "days(2)".
> 
> If you don't have "ago" how would you determine the differences
> compared to the opposite,

now - blah vs. now + blah

> which looks like this in Ruby on Rails:
> 
> time = 2.days.from_now
> 
> "2" is the duration, "days" is the unit and ago/from_now indicates if 
> it's positive or negative.
>