On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 03:31:03PM -0300, Daniel Ruoso wrote: : Em Sex, 2009-02-20 às 10:17 -0800, Larry Wall escreveu: : > By the by, I'm also inclined to agree with those who prefer "Instant" : > to "DateTime" on aesthetic grounds. : : I should note that I'm insisting on DateTime just as the reference p5 : module in CPAN, I don't oppose it being called Instant in Perl 6.
And I should clarify that by Instant I was referring to a particular data type, not the module that defines it. I suppose Temporal is as good a module name as any, though Temporal::Instant does seem a bit redundant... On the other hand, Instant::Duration is just wrong. Perhaps we could just go with Instant and Duration as top-level roles since they're rather fundamental to lots of computing. As builtins they would presumably come with appropriate operators predefined. And as roles they could be tweaked by a derived class to mean something slightly different, if the need arises. Larry
