If I remember correctly the argument against auto stringification was
that it made debugging harder.
I started on some generic way to add stringification to an object that
couldn't. But never got past the 80% point (you kindly reviewed the
code for me and provided nice comments).
-ben
On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 02:38:00PM +0000, Leon Brocard wrote:
> Dave Rolsky sent the following bits through the ether:
>
> > Would you consider renaming this as DateTime::Util::Stringify? I'd like
> > to avoid having lots of different second level namespaces under
> > the DateTime TLNS (new acronym, you read it here first).
> >
> > Or you could try to talk me into adding this to DateTime.pm on the
> > datetime list. I remember there was a reason I didn't want to do this,
> > but I can no longer remember what it was ;)
>
> I wrote the module as I assumed that you had a reason not to put it in
> the DateTime core. I don't really fancy renaming it into a namespace
> that doesn't exist. Consider this a prod for open discussion about the
> stringification of DateTime objects ;-)
>
> Leon
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