Re: Discarding some fifteen functions/methods in favour of an enhanced strftime

Sun, 12 Jan 2003 11:34:03 -0800 

On Sunday, January 12, 2003, at 04:29  AM, Antonios Christofides wrote:


As all things, it has a downside: some additional format specifiers may
have to be defined for the enhanced strftime (and possibly strptime),
creating incompatibility with the standard strftime.
It also means that users have to memorize all of the arcane strftime formatting characters. I don't know them all, and I use stftime all the time.

I like your extended strftime() syntax, though, and see no reason why convenience methods couldn't simply be implemented by using that syntax.

Upshot: I like the strftime() semantics you suggest, but think we should also keep all of the convenience methods that you would dump.

HTH,

David

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