On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Marco Marongiu wrote: > [... much snipped..] > > The impression I get from the DateTime::Event::Recurrence is that even > if you need to accomplish a simple task, you have to learn a lot about > the DateTime framework, which is the exact contrary of the Perl > philosophy as a whole: it is stated somewhere (the Camel Book? The Llama > book?) that you can learn a few Perl to begin to make something useful > with it. > > My impression could well be wrong. But, in that case, there is something > wrong also in how the DateTime modules are explained and documented.
>From re-implementing your module using DateTime::Event::Recurrence I would say that your impression is wrong. It took me very little time, and I did it mostly by cut-n-pasting the examples in Date::Time and DateTime::Event::Recurrence. About the module, I would call it Date::Calc::DayIterator: it is really linked to Date::Calc, plus that would help user determine quickly to which "family" of Date modules it belongs. If you really don't want to use the Date::Calc namespace, then Date::DayIterator is more precise than Date::Iterator (I would use a Date::MonthIterator if I did not know (now ;--) how to do it with DateTime::Event::Recurrence!). -- Michel Rodriguez Perl & XML http://www.xmltwig.com
