On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 8:28 PM, Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck@gmail.com
> wrote:

> It uses hours/minutes/seconds for values < 1 day and uses days and
> fractions
> of a day otherwise.
>

Yes, my examples were documenting this idiosyncracy.


> For values and operations that it has not considered it falls back to
> the internal representation.


Yes, my examples were documenting this bad behavior.


> Most of your examples start to make sense once you realize this.
>

Of course I "realize" this.  That was the point of my examples.  I
understand perfectly well what is *causing* the bad behavior.  That doesn't
make it less bad.

What is the point of a class system if functions ignore the class and
perform meaningless calculations on the internal representation?

            -s

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