Don Romano (alt)
So...
If a parking sign lists 3 time ranges, one plain, one in parenthesis and one in red, it means you can only park during those times on weekdays, Saturdays and red days respectively.
...but if it lists only one time range in black, and states a maximum duration, the meaning of "non-parenthesis black" magically changes from "you may only park here during these hours on ordinary weekdays" to "during these hours, you can only park here for 3 hours"?
That's not logically consistent at all!
Don Romano (alt)
Parking signs could really benefit from some boolean notation...
The sign below basically means:
parkingAllowed =
(t < 8 && t >= 16) || hours <= 3
But it reads like:
parkingAllowed =
t < 8 && t >= 16 &
d >= 'mon' && d <= 'fri' &&
hours < 3
Why the day range interpretation? Because black text without parentheses indicates ordinary weekdays exclusively on parking signs that include time ranges for Saturdays and Sundays or holidays.
Don Romano (alt)
Parking signs could really benefit from some boolean notation...
The sign below basically means:
parkingAllowed =
(t < 8 && t >= 16) || hours <= 3
But it reads like:
parkingAllowed =
t < 8 && t >= 16 &
d >= 'mon' && d <= 'fri' &&
hours <= 3
Why the day range interpretation? Because black text without parentheses indicates ordinary weekdays exclusively on parking signs that include time ranges for Saturdays and Sundays or holidays.
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