On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Joshua Hoblitt wrote: > We were talking about returning DT::Undef objects from parsers. So, for > example, if the _format_ being parsed _defines_ an unknown or undefined > date/time an object can be returned that reflects this. Simply > returning undef when an object is expected is, IMHO, not a correct > behavior.
Sure, if the format has something for unknown, I can see the usefulness of such an object, although since undef also indicates unknown, I'm not sure that's so bad. > My fear is that people will start returning DT objects set to something > like 0000-01-01T00:00:00 to indicate this case. Yeah, that'd be ugly. -dave /*======================= House Absolute Consulting www.houseabsolute.com =======================*/
