[swift-evolution] Proposal: Conforming NSDate to Comparable

Brent Royal-Gordon brent at architechies.com
Sat Dec 5 17:51:48 CST 2015


> I think it's a good idea to conform NSDate to the Comparable protocol, so instead of using:
> 
> if someDate.compare(today) == .OrderedAscending { }
> 
> Developers can easily compare using compare dates using comparison operators:
> 
> if someDate < today { }

I would also suggest we add Strideable, which would allow you to add and subtract NSTimeIntervals, plus subtract two NSDates to get the NSTimeInterval between them.

https://gist.github.com/brentdax/11b3275424d0833cfd99

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Brent Royal-Gordon
Architechies



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