On Monday, January 13, 2003, at 10:14 PM, Dave Rolsky wrote:
I _don't_ want to discuss implementation of this. I want to talk
about the API!
Agreed; I'm making this argument specifically because I think the
proposed API is clearer.
Looking at the two alternatives, does the second really
Dave Rolsky wrote:
use DateTime;
use DateTime::Parse::MySQL;
my $dt = DateTime::Parse::MySQL-new_datetime( $mysql_dt );
print DateTime::Parse::MySQL-mysql_datetime( $dt );
I can also imagine some other scheme, where parse/format modules register
the formats they can handle with
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Matthew Simon Cavalletto wrote:
What's the benefit of making this distinction between core and other
formats?
Because core parsing would be available simply by doing:
use DateTime;
That's about it.
Why not define a parser interface and include the basic formats as
