On Sep 26, Bob Showalter said:
>Is it your policy to eschew the use of such "non-standard"
>modules? What do you do about DBI, say?
There's nothing built-in that does what DBI does at anywhere near the
speed, flexibility, and power. My date code works because it's built off
a module that works (and is fast) and is rather simple code.
>I can see the validity of preferring a "lightweight" module
>over a "heavy" one such as Date::Manip, but I don't see the
>point of distinguishing between "core" and "non-core"
>modules.
Date::Manip is KNOWN to be a big module. If it doesn't use Time::Local
internally, I'd say it should. While I don't doubt that it does day
difference via conversion to seconds, I've not looked at it to see HOW it
derives the seconds. Time::Local uses a common method, and employs
caching and other goodies.
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