On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, J. David Blackstone wrote:
> Moving from bootstrap to perl6-language ...
>
> In response to [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s requirements document, Hildo
> Biersma wrote:
> > In issue 3.2.1 (localtime), note that the month starting at 0 is very
> > useful for arrays - which is of the course the reason it is done this
> > way. I am not convinced going to an index of 1 is the right approach.
> > It might be more useful if the core came with a useful, minimalistic but
> > inheritable, Date object.
>
> We have been making extensive use of Time::Object since the day it
> was released. The recent version 0.10 (which appeared last week)
> upgraded to an XS extension while maintaining the interface.
>
> This is exactly the way I would like things to work, but others may
> not feel the same.
Sounds good since:
1. It removes unnecesary core functionality to a loadable module
2. Can be retrofitted to perl5 code fairly easily (essentially as easy as
exporting a backwards compatible localtime() function).
3. It no longer has a unix specific flavour (PS I am not anti-unix in any
sense) so Mac, VMS and Windows users feel less confused.
It gets my vote so long as perl6 has really fast methods.
--
Tim Jenness
JCMT software engineer/Support scientist
http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/~timj
