Re: why doesn't month take an int ?

We used a datatype because it provides symbolic names and is more  
type secure.
For years and days, you need an int.

I'm not sure what the right semantics for mapping to/from integers  
should be.
Normal convention would have January be 1, but if you are using the  
values
to index addays, then you want January to be 0.

	- John

On Apr 11, 2006, at 12:01 AM, brian wrote:

> In the Date structure, every field except for month takes an int.
>
> Why is that ?  And since it takes the Month datatype, why not  
> provide a function which maps from int to datatype month.
>
> Seems inconsistent.
>
> Is there a reason for the particular organization ?
>
> Thanks
>
> Brian
>
>
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