Thinking about a date-matching algorithm

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Looking at the subject, naturally i came up with this.

if female.fav.color == male.fav.color
collectfee
arrangemarriage
else next end

:), hth

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— Hal Fulton <hal9000@hypermetrics.com http://us.f104.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=hal9000@hypermetrics.com&YY=77700&order=down&sort=date&pos=0&view=a&head=b> wrote:

I did a little swapping of ideas with dblack on
this. Now I’m
opening discussion to anyone interested.

I’m writing a little to-do manager (chiefly for my
own use).

I want to allow recurring tasks. Some of these will
be simple, like
“Every Monday.” Others will be more complex, like
“Every 2nd and 4th
Friday.” Some might not even be based on weeks or
months at all, but
might be like: “Every ten days, no matter what.”

There’d also be an option to give advance warning (N
days) on each
event.

So the question becomes: Given a date (typically
“today”) and a list
of recurring tasks, how do I determine which ones
need to be displayed?

Cheers,
Hal

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paul vudmaska wrote:

Looking at the subject, naturally i came up with this.

if female.fav.color == male.fav.color
collectfee
arrangemarriage
else next end

:), hth

I’m back in town now and answering emails…
to this one I can only say:

("har"*3).capitalize + "!"

Hal