On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 00:12:46 +0100, Paul Johnson wrote: Hi Paul
> No, of course I didn't finish it, but at least there is something > to build on if anyone wants to take a look at things while I am > waiting for my somewhat overdue shipment of appropriately shaped > tuits. Sigh. Isn't that the way of things. Actually, I happen to have quite a few tuits available. But I won't volunteer (certainly not right now) because I've recently volunteered to add some Oracle support to Rose, a fancy family of modules which wraps DBI. > From just looking at it right now, two obvious improvements that > are required are to compare actual dates rather than their textual > representations, and to match other textual records in a somewhat > finer graduation than 0% or 100%. I take it you mean, e.g., by instantiating some form of Date::* or DateTime::* type of object, thus delegating the comparison work to pre-existing code? That's what I'd do. PS I'm on the list - no need to send a copy of the msg directly. -- Ron Savage [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://savage.net.au/index.html
