Why do DateTime formatters construct objects that don't have the
"formatter" field set by default? It seems to me that this is usually
better than leaving it blank.
e.g.
perl -MDateTime -MDateTime::Format::MySQL -MData::Dumper -wle'print
Dumper(DateTime::Format::MySQL->parse_datetime("2000-01-01 12:00:00"))'
gives:
$VAR1 = bless( {
...
'formatter' => undef,
}, 'DateTime' );
when wouldn't it be nicer if we got:
$VAR1 = bless( {
...
'formatter' => 'DateTime::Format::MySQL',
}, 'DateTime' );
instead?
Or does anyone see a big glaring reason why this *shouldn't* be done?
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