On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 06:47:25PM +0900, Alexander Kellett wrote:
> On Jan 17, 2005, at 3:23 AM, David Heinemeier Hansson wrote:
> >* *Numeric bytes and time:* Rails has taken upon itself to extend Ruby 
> >in a few spots, such as adding the possibility for expressions like 
> ><code>45.kilobytes + 2.3.megabytes</code> and <code>45.minutes + 
> >2.hours + 1.fortnight</code>.
> 
> very neat idea!

Some of the "credit" here should go to Richard Kilmer who demoed some
code at RubyConf 2004 that showcased him using methods on Numeric for
more readable time code such as the 3.hours + 45.minutes stuff.

Neat indeed. Ruby makes it easy!

marcel
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Marcel Molina Jr. <marcel / vernix.org>