Re: Base object API/semantics

[David Wheeler]

On Sunday, January 12, 2003, at 02:30  PM, Dave Rolsky wrote:

Uh, could someone summarize this thread, and the motion at hand, keeping
in mind that calendar-specific modules will be DateTime::Calendar::X, not
DateTime::X? I've kind of lost track of what's being proposed.

Should DateTime.pm be a factory class that defaults to returning a DateTime::Calendar::Gregorian object, or should it be a base class that implements the Gregorian calendar.

John and I liked the former option, though you expressed your opposition to it yesterday. The advantage is that the interface is exactly the same regardless of calendaring system, and we deal with the issues of allowing DateTime to return different calendar types right now, up front.

Does that help?

David

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