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So,
anyone still object to this going in?
I recall last time the objections came down to the fact that nobody else
other than me appeared to want it, and something about "UTF-8 and
locales is hard". Which basically comes down to the problem that we Do
Not Know if the locale is going to give us UTF-8 strings or not, so we
can't know what will be the correct thing to do.
But that isn't a strptime()-specific problem and happens all over the
place and we don't appear to care.
I think I was just the victim of being overly-cautious about adding this
one function, and any objections to it could equally well be made about
half a dozen other functions already in POSIX.{pm,xs} that should
arguably removed, if strptime() is to be rejected for the same reasons.
So, given I've just this second had to explain to something like the
10th person on #perl/Freenode, the fact that "sorry, core has no
strptime() you can use for this, but try the broken POSIX::strptime
module off CPAN provided you are on Linux", I would instead prefer that
we actually get this into core sometime...
.. maybe next year?
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Paul "LeoNerd" Evans
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