[vlc-devel] [Patch] Adding an helper to convert iso8601 durations to seconds

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

   Hello,

On Wednesday 14 December 2011, Hugo Beauzée-Luyssen wrote:
> 2011/12/14 Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi at remlab.net>:
> > Le mercredi 14 décembre 2011 00:48:41 Hugo Beauzée-Luyssen, vous avez 
écrit :
> >> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 11:46 PM, Hugo Beauzée-Luyssen
> >> 
> >> <beauze.h at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > 2011/12/9 Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi at remlab.net>:
> >> >> Function name is too long. And time_t is thecorrect type for seconds
> >> >> IMHO.
> >> 
> >> Oops, this one's the good one.
> > 
> > I think this patch does not work due to typo. Please drop _to_s*. It's
> > obviously seconds since the return type is time_t.
> 
> Hmmm yep you're right... my bad.
> Here are some fixed versions of both patches.

I hate defensive programming in internal functions. It encourages sloppy code.

While I don't know the ISO standard, I find it very suspicious to parse floating 
point values according to the system locale.

And I don't see the use for this helper, at least in that patch series...

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Rémi Denis-Courmont
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