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
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W.A.C. Bennett Library, Simon Fraser University
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