On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Matthew Simon Cavalletto wrote:
> What's the benefit of making this distinction between core and "other"
> formats?
Because "core" parsing would be available simply by doing:
use DateTime;
That's about it.
> Why not define a parser interface and include the basic formats as
> modules in the main distribution?
What distro it's in is not the issue. It's really a question of whether
or not users must load another module to do parsing, that's all.
> This type of design should encourage separation of concerns, and help
> to avoid monolithic implementations -- the current DateTime::new sub is
> over 100 lines long... The overhead of one more method call seems like
It's over 100 lines cause it needs refactoring. That's on my todo list.
> my $dt = DateTime->new( ICal => '20030113' );
>
> # Causes DateTime to load the ICal format module and request that
> # it parse the data and return it in a standard numeric form.
> # Equivalent to the following:
> require DateTime::Format::ICal;
> my $dt = DateTime->new( rd_sec =>
> DateTime::Format::ICal->parse_into_ratadie_and_seconds('20030113')
> );
Actually, I have some ideas for this. Something like:
use DateTime;
use DateTime::Parse::MySQL;
my $dt = DateTime->from_mysql_datetime( $mysql_dt );
So the parsing modules would just add methods to the DateTime namespace.
-dave
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