Re: date interface (was Re: perl6 requirements, on bootstrap)

[Tim Jenness]

On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Tom Christiansen wrote:

> >3. It no longer has a unix specific flavour (PS I am not anti-unix in any
> >sense) so Mac, VMS and Windows users feel less confused.
> 
> Did it get decided that we were *supposed* to make Unix and C programmers
> feel more confused and less at home with Perl?
> 
> --tom
> 

No. :-)
I'm not bothered either way since I try to read the manual before using a
function :-)

The main objection to localtime() seemed to be the perceived lack of
consistency and the only way to make it "consistent" is to rename it so as
not to clash with the underlying C function. No one has yet proposed an
RFC that removes all the standard C-like functions and replaces them with
objects (although given the brain storming going on at the moment I am
actually quite surprised noone has done that yet :-)

-- 
Tim Jenness
JCMT software engineer/Support scientist
http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/~timj