On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Dave Rolsky <auta...@urth.org> wrote: > After some discussion I made a number of drastic revisions to > S32-setting-library/Temporal.pod > > What I want to see in Perl 6 is a set of very minimal roles that can be used > to provide a simply object from gmtime() and localtime(). These objects > should not handle locales, proper Olson timezones, string parsing, > user-defined formatting, or math. > > They're basically simply little data blobs with some overloading and a few > handy methods. > > I imagine that a real classes which do math, handle leap seconds, > formatting, and so on will _also_ do these roles, but this should be done > out of core. > > I don't really know Perl 6 all that well, so I'd welcome review, in > particular of my Perl 6-isms, and also just of the general concepts. >
Why should an Instant be a role, and not a concrete class? What would one instant do that another can't? Representing a specific moment in time sounds like a very concrete thing to me. Leon
