[Remind-Fans] Access to the FROM/SCANFROM, UNTIL/THROUGH, and AT/DURATION in a reminder?

[Tim Chase]

On 2019-12-28 13:51, Dianne Skoll wrote:
> On 2019-12-27 23:50, Tim Chase wrote:
> 
> > Is there any way for an expression or substitution to access the
> > values supplied in a FROM/SCANFROM and UNTIL/THROUGH (or the times
> > provided by the AT & DURATION clauses, or the TAG value)?  
> 
> Interesting.  Yes, I think those could be useful.  Currently, the
> only thing accessible to an expression is the AT time (available as
> trigtime()) but I can definitely see how you might want to access
> the other bits and pieces.  I'll look into it.

Cool, thanks!

> >   SET WinterBreak2019Start date(2019,12,21)
> >   SET WinterBreak2019End   date(2020,1,5)  
> 
> You could write those as '2019-12-21' and '2020-01-05' more
> compactly.

Yeah, I've gotten stung a couple times where data of one type was
expected and I had to coerce() it to another, so I tend to explictly
coerce.  Digging through my *.rem files, it looks like it was a case
of passing an integer to evaltrig() where

  evaltrig(day(SOME_DATE))

failed but

  evaltrig(coerce("STRING", day(SOME_DATE)))

worked as expected.  So I'm cool with being explicit in my
data-typing.

Thanks again,

-tim