I have two module which convert dates and times respectively to words, there are a couple of different detail levels in each module, example output for the different date functions would be "May Fifth", "Monday the fifth of May" and "Monday the fifth of may, nineteen seventy five", and analogously for time with different levels of detail. I use them for a bunch of stuff that's output to a speech synthesizer which is crappy at outputting things like "9:04am", myself, but I suppose there are other uses too, not to mention other people who use speech synth in their perl programs.
Example use: my $date = new XXXX-modulename-XXXX time(); print "> " . $date->ShortDate . ".\n"; > Monday the third of May. my $time = new XXXX-modulename-XXXX time(); print "> " . $time->LongTime . ".\n"; > A quater past three in the morning. Two questions: 1. One module or two? There are currently two modules, one which deals with dates and one which deals with times, but it would be trivial to combine them. Would you advise that this should be one module or two? 2. What module namespace to use? I have examined nodes already in CPAN and it seems most modules related to dates and times are stored under Date:: namespace, but on the other hand many modules that convert things to English are stored under Lingua::EN:: namespsace ... and on the gripping hand, I have also seen modules under the Text:: namespace that deal with generating English text. My gut feeling is (if 1 module) Text::DateTime or (if 2 modules) Text::Date and Text::Time) perhaps? I don't think it belongs in the Date:: namespace because Date:: seems to be related to manipulating dates and times rather than just outputting them. I don't know how you decide what goes in Lingua::EN:: and Text:: as namespaces, I have a previous module Lingua::EN::Gender whose namespace was cleared with this alias, but IIRC at the time the Text:: namespace didn't even exist! Is the Lingua::EN:: namespace deprecated now, and if not how do you decide what goes there and what goes in Text::? In short words, I'm thoroughly confused! Please advise :) Please also remember, all of you modules@ people, that you hard work is greatly appreciated by us half-educated Perl module authors! Especially ones like me who aren't totally up on what's what and have writte a few modules a year. Regards, Ricky -- : Usual state: (e) None of the above. : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tertius.net.au/~rb/ : The algorithm to do that is extremely nasty. You might want to : mug someone with it. -- M Devine, Computer Science 340
