Re: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.

[Robin Houston]

On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 05:07:28PM +0000, Leon Brocard wrote:
> This isn't such a crazy idea. People keep on complaining about the
> quality of modules on CPAN. So pick a random one and make it better
> ;-P

Well, with a module like Date::MMDDYY the implementation
_is_ broken - it uses gmtime() instead of localtime() for
example;

but worse than that, the design and conception are flawed.
Any drop-in replacement would inevitably suffer from the
same flaws of conception and interface.

There's no reason at all for anybody to use this module.
Compare:

  use Date::MMDDYY 'datecon';
  print "The date is ", datecon(time()), "\n";

to

  use POSIX 'strftime';
  print "The date is ", strftime("%m-%d-%y", localtime()), "\n";


The module is redundant, not just poorly implemented.

 .robin.

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