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On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 03:37:04PM +0100, Paul LeoNerd Evans wrote: > So, having quite successfully derailed the previous attempt, lets try > again. > > I want > > use POSIX qw( strptime ); > > to work. I further want it to have actually-useful semantics, which as > demonstrated POSIX::strptime::strptime and Time::Piece::strptime both > lack. Ideally I'd prefer the former of these two semantics, as to most > closely match the POSIX/C API, but given this was such a point of > argument last time, I'd be happy to accept either of these in Perl: > Opinions? I really don't want to have 2 contradictory implementations of strptime() in the core. My hunch is that there will be a way to achieve both desires, but I don't have any insight yet on *how*. I suspect it comes down to the right interface for adding the actually-useful semantics. We had "fun" for a while when the (newly added) Socket::inet_pton() was not compatible with the inet_pton() that Socket6 had provided for some years. Commit 3aca805b785501fb fixed this. I don't want to repeat such "fun". Nicholas ClarkThread Previous | Thread Next