is a date

[Roger Eller]

Exactly!  I was elated to find the built-in "is a date" check, because I
really wanted to NOT have to roll my own.  I was THRILLED that our lovely
English-like syntax was working FOR me.  And then an integer was accepted
as a legit date.  I didn't like that at all.  Why can't the engine have "is
a date" or "is a formatted date" as well?

~Roger

On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 6:05 AM, hh via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> > JLG wrote ...
> > The one exception may be that any _integer_ is considered a date.
> > To get around that we could just check that there are 3 items
> > delimited by slashes before testing for "is a date".
>
> I write "is a /real/ date" into my notes whenever a meeting is a date.
> How do you handle such _real_ cases in your functions?  ;-)
>
>