Kassen,<br><br>That actually doesn't make sense to me. 2::second has no reference point to when it started or when it ends. It's just 2 seconds of duration. So, for me, this:<br><br>2::second $ time => time later;
<br><br>seems so implicit that it's ambiguous. I would, however, agree that there ought to be a (dare I say) keyword for the time at which the VM started so that you could basically do the same thing that you did in the first line.
<br><br>vmstart + 2::second => time afterVmStarted;<br><br>Of course, you could just approximate this functionality by having this line run the moment the vm starts:<br><br>now => time vmstart;<br><br>Then, you'd be able to the do everything relative to that time. At least, that's how I would solve it.
<br><br>-Mike<br><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 7, 2008 10:11 AM, Kassen <<a href="mailto:signal.automatique@gmail.com">signal.automatique@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Dear list (and language designers in particular), <br><br>this is legal;<br>now + 2::second => time later;<br><br>so, we know that time and duration are quite similar things (we already knew that ourselves but now we know ChucK agrees).
<br><br>However, this isn't legal;<br><br>2::second $ time => time later;<br><br>I tried this, intending "later" to refer to the moment 2 seconds after the VM sprang to life.<br><br><br>Are there good reasons not to allow the casting from time to dur and dur to time?
<br><br>Yours,<br>Kas.<br>
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