pugs-comm...@feather.perl6.nl wrote:
Author: autarch
Date: 2009-02-19 19:14:48 +0100 (Thu, 19 Feb 2009)
New Revision: 25445
Modified:
docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library/Temporal.pod
Log:
This is a very drastic revision (hopefully this won't turn into a revert war ;)
I agree with your changes in general. Let the base Temporal just be basic roles
and let implementing
classes fill out more details, provide operators and system services and
formatting and locales and timezones and so on.
Renamed Temporal::Instant to Temporal::DateTime
As per my previous post, I recommend having both, like this:
role Instant {
has Int $.year;
...
has Rat $.second;
}
role DateTime is Instant where defined $.year ... and defined $.second;
role Date is Instant where defined $.year ... and defined $.day;
role Time is Instant where defined $.hour ... and defined $.second;
So something like that. So Date and Time mean all Date|Time details, and
DateTime means all details of both. And Instant means any combination of
defined or not of said member attributes. And that's actually why I advocated
Instant as a name for that more-broad-than-DateTime thing.
So please provide all 4 roles, that's what I strongly support.
-- Darren Duncan
P.S. I will be away from a computer during Fri-Sun and much of today too so if
I don't chime in then it is not due to disinterest.
