Re: date interface (was Re: perl6 requirements, on bootstrap)

[Matt Sergeant]

On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Tom Christiansen wrote:

> >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.
> 
> Did it get decided that we were *supposed* to make Unix and C programmers
> feel more confused and less at home with Perl?

Is there something particularly confusing about the current interface?

I used to be a C programmer myself (well OK, I was a C++ programmer...),
but I'd rather any day type "localtime->year" than "(localtime)[5]".

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