Re:Good Design is Imperfect Design, Part 1: Honest Names
by kaishiro on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @05:27PM
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Maybe I'm just being thick (it's usually the case), but for the life of me I still don't know what your answer to the parent's question is, and I can't tell how your quoted part is supposed to answer it.
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Re:Good Design is Imperfect Design, Part 1: Honest Names
by mjevans on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @06:54PM
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My 2 higher levels post post included an alternate phrasing of the test case they specified:
""" None of the examples in the article use a more vague syntax, such as "0 days before the end of the month". """
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They asked:
""" What’s Feb 28th + 1 month?
Does the human expect the last day of March? Or the 28th day of March? """
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It's implicit, the human only expects the month to change, because the input isn't a descriptive phrase "the end of the month" adjusted or not, it's a literal date. That's why my other test cases show the same behavior for the end of the month.