[swift-corelibs-dev] [swift-evolution] Proposal: Conforming NSDate to Comparable

[Brent Royal-Gordon]

> I agree that it makes perfect sense for NSDate to implement Strideable. I actually do that already in my extensions.
> The concept of NSDate and NSTimeInterval fit with the concept, the chance of misusing it doesn't increase too much with more utilities as a developer either knows what it represent or it doesn't (if it doesn't search for it).
> This shouldn't be used for date computations (and here I could say the name is ambiguous), but for time computations.

I obviously agree. But I’d also add that it might make sense to emit a compiler warning for things that look like date math instead of time math—for instance, constants divisible by 86400 (24 hours), or maybe even 3600 (60 minutes).

Actually, this might be a good idea even when no time APIs are obviously involved. What are the chances your literal 86400 doesn’t have something to do with a date?

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Brent Royal-Gordon
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