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On Friday, January 10, 2003, at 11:37 AM, Stephen R. Wilcoxon wrote: > On Thu 2003/01/09 16:04:04 CST, Dave Rolsky <autarch@urth.org> writes: > >> -- Provides simple date parsing ala Time::Piece->strptime. Maybe >> throw in >> the functionality provided by Date::Parse? Maybe make this a separate >> module. Doesn't matter too much. > > Simple parsing needs to be in the base module (yyyymmdd at least). I > would > prefer to see complex parsing put in a different module that could be > included (or not) based on if your application needs any complex > parsing. Yeah, the base module should accept several different non-ambiguous "canonical" formats such as the ones used in RFCs, and things like YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS. A supplementary module could handle fuzzy stuff like "3 days ago" and "a month from tomorrow". Just trying to codify my idea of simple vs. complex. > The data manipulation functions need to be written in C (ala > Date::Calc) > for speed. We are using Date::Calc currently because it is the only > module > (of those we tested) that ran acceptably fast. That's really an implementation question, though. The interfaces can be architected first without regard to the backend implementation. -KenThread Previous | Thread Next