On Sat, 19 Jan 2008, Steven Schubiger wrote:
As some of you might recall, DateTime::Format::Natural used to
ship with multiple language support (english and german), but back
then the entire concept was flawed (no functional tokeniser/lexer
combination) and some ugly workarounds were applied to circumvent
the limitations in the design implemented.
Since it now features a pluggable grammar, I'd be interested in
hearing whether someone would like to see other language metadata
integrated and more importantly, whether the person in question would
be eager enough to implement most of it on its own. I surely could
lend a helping hand by outlining how a grammar class is structured.
I'm convinced that additional language sets can be mostly seamlessly
integrated given the current tokeniser/lexer & the dispatch table
(>= 0.50); it would require some time though on behalf of the implementor
(tests would have to be written too, though).
This might be a great subject for some small TPF grants, if anyone out
there is interested.
-dave
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