[Remind-Fans] SINCE verb

[Sector11]

Maybe a confusion with this "since":
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FSET fname(args) expr

Fname  is the name of the function, and follows the convention
for naming variables.  Args is a comma-separated list of arguments,
and expr is an expression.  Args can be empty, in which case you
define afunction taking no parameters.  Here are some examples:

     FSET double(x) 2*x
     FSET yeardiff(date1, date2) year(date1) - year(date2)
     FSET since(x) ord(year(trigdate())-x)

The last function is useful in birthday reminders.  For example:

     REM 1 Nov +12 MSG Dean's [since(1984)] birthday is %b.

Dean was born in 1984. The above example, on 1 November 1992, would
print:

     Dean's 8th birthday is today.
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... just a thought.



On Thu, 21 Jul 2016 15:57:58 -0400
Dianne Skoll <dfs at roaringpenguin.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 21 Jul 2016 19:55:39 +0000
> "Theodore M Rolle, Jr." <stercor at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I have it in more .rem files than coincidence explains.
> 
> The definition I posted earlier probably is floating around the Internet.
> But it is not (and never has been) built into Remind.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Dianne.
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