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

2000-08-02 Thread 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

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

2000-08-03 Thread Matt Sergeant
[I might join perl6-language some day, but until then, please CC me on all Time::Object related messages] On Wed, 2 Aug 2000 08:14:22 +0100 (BST), Matt Sergeant wrote: >I used to be a C programmer myself (well OK, I was a C++ programmer...), >but I'd rather any day type "local

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

2000-08-03 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Hildo Biersma wrote: > > > > I'd either leave that as (localtime)[3,4,5] (please read the man page for > > Time::Object), or understand that there's absolutely no need to separate > > off the variables like that in an object oriented interface: > > Ah, but we could make the

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

2000-08-03 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Tom Christiansen wrote: > >I'd either leave that as (localtime)[3,4,5] (please read the man page for > >Time::Object), or understand that there's absolutely no need to separate > >off the variables like that in an object oriented interface: > > > my ($day, $month, $year) =

Re: AGAINST RFC 48 (v1) Replace localtime() and gmtime() with da

2000-08-08 Thread Matt Sergeant
> On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 01:44:28AM -0500, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 06, 2000 at 11:07:02AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > > Basically, you don't want to go anywhere near this mess; it eats people. > > > > I agree. > > > > > I see two reasona

Re: AGAINST RFC 48 (v1) Replace localtime() and gmtime() with da

2000-08-08 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Nathan Wiger wrote: > > While I think Time::Object is a really great module, and following these > > discussions I'm thinking of adding a date() function to it > > Aaah! Please don't. :-) Name it something else, por favor (or at least > wait until this is finalized and make t