Hi Ed and Andy, On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 08:33:55AM -0500, Ed Summers wrote:
> One of Andy's guiding principles with MARC::Record was to keep it clean and > simple...which is another reason this sort of magical behavior isn't in > there. Which I totally appreciate. MARC::Record is substantially cleaner and easier to use than the older modules (and more flexible too because programmers aren't boxed in by bib-specific methods). Besides, having to construct my own dates in 008 is a good excuse to use the always-enjoyable Date::Calc module =8^) Mark Mark Jordan Acting Coordinator of Library Systems W.A.C. Bennett Library, Simon Fraser University Burnaby, British Columbia, V5A 1S6, Canada Phone (604) 291 5753 / Fax (604) 291 3023 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://www.sfu.ca/~mjordan/