On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 7:12 AM, Chouser <chou...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 7:20 AM, Mark Volkmann > <r.mark.volkm...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 5:30 AM, AndrewC. <mr.bl...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> On Jan 23, 8:41 am, lpetit <laurent.pe...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> Interesting. Are u sure joda-time is so widely in usage among java >>>> developers ? >>> >>> I use it and so do all my friends :) >>> >>> I believe there are moves afoot to get it included in the JDK sooner >>> or later. >>> >>> https://jsr-310.dev.java.net/ >> >> That's right. So eventually it won't be an extra dependency. For that >> reason I think it would be much better to make the contrib date/time >> functions delegate to the Joda Time library. > > It looks to me like this lib as it stands would allow me to go from > a date string (from a file or user input) or from the current date, > through some minimal calculations, and back out to a formatted string > without ever touching the underlying Java object directly. Why do I > care if Joda time is inside or not. > > ...except of course that every external dependency is an increased > burden on the users of any code I write. It seems likely that a > pretty substantial percentage of use cases could be handled in a way > that would allow either Java lib to be used underneath. That way I > would have no extra dependency now, or if I need Joda features could > use that instead.
I think some reasons to use Joda Time instead of new code for data/time calculations include: 1) Joda Time is already very well tested, so it's known to be good code. 2) Joda Time has much more functionality than what has been implemented so far in Clojure. Having the Clojure code delegate to Joda Time paves the way to easily add more of that functionality later. 3) When Joda Time becomes a standard part of Java, the extra dependency will go away. 4) Reimplementing Joda Time functionality consumes time that could be better spent on other things. -- R. Mark Volkmann Object Computing, Inc. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
