Re: [mplspm]: Picking up the ball

[David Wheeler]

On Saturday, January 11, 2003, at 11:08  AM, dLux wrote:

I imagined the following stringification method:

use overload '""'    => "as_string";

sub as_string {
    my ($self) = @_;
    my ($package) = caller;
    no strict refs;
    return $package->FORMAT_DATETIME($self)
	if $package->can("FORMAT_DATETIME");
    ...
}

The author of a module just have to write a date-stringification method
of his package (obviously using strftime).

Yes, a similar approach occurred to me. We'll have to look at this when the time comes, for sure.

One issue to keep in mind: I don't think that DBI will stringify by default.

David

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