Moving from bootstrap to perl6-language ...
In response to [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s requirements document, Hildo
Biersma wrote:
> In issue 3.2.1 (localtime), note that the month starting at 0 is very
> useful for arrays - which is of the course the reason it is done this
> way. I am not convinced going to an index of 1 is the right approach.
> It might be more useful if the core came with a useful, minimalistic but
> inheritable, Date object.
I would like to vote that the interface be along the lines of Matt
Sergeant's excellent Time::Object module, which, as he says,
"implements most of an interface described by Larry Wall on the
perl5-porters mailing list here:
http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2000-01/msg00241.html".
(As an added side benefit, this module also implemented an interface
I had been cooking up at work since January 1st but hadn't had time to
work on until the joyful day when I discovered someone else had
already done it.)
We have been making extensive use of Time::Object since the day it
was released. The recent version 0.10 (which appeared last week)
upgraded to an XS extension while maintaining the interface.
This is exactly the way I would like things to work, but others may
not feel the same.
J. David Blackstone
