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Sorry for the delay. Just caught this off of "use Perl;"
One thing to keep in mind: the only thing I (and most people whose code
I maintain) want out of date parsing 9 times out of 10 is:
$date = <$fh>;
$something = Some::Thing->new($date);
$tomorrow = $something->tomorrow;
$file = strftime("file.%Y%m%d",$tomorrow->coretime);
This is a contrived and silly example, but the points I think it gets
across are:
* Many features (e.g. strftime) are good, and already exist
* Simple data manipulation is most common
* Conversion to core time (POSIX epoch) should always be easy
If those guidelines are adhered to, I'm all for the change! Thanks!
--
Aaron Sherman <ajs@ajs.com>
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