Re: Parser Interface (Was Re: Picking up the ball)

[David Wheeler]

On Monday, January 13, 2003, at 11:51  AM, Dave Rolsky wrote:

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.

Ah, the decorator pattern made easy. This once again shows why many design patterns are almost meaningless in Perl. ;-)

David

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