At 04:51 PM 11/14/2001 +0000, Matt Sergeant wrote: >On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Stephen Adkins wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> * Is anyone interested in helping sort out Date and Time >> functionality for the P5EE? > >No. This is *not* an enterprise API, IMO. Others may feel differently, but >we're not here to sort out all of CPAN!
That is a good point which we should keep in mind to keep us focused. Nonetheless, one might hold (as I do) that it really should be part of the language (date/time manipulation) as it is in Java. (Hence my suggestion of the P5EE::Lang::* namespace.) Furthermore, numerous enterprise API's (i.e. persistence) have dependencies on date/time processing/formatting. Therefore, we have no choice but to deal with the issue. Finally, it is not my proposal to "sort out all of CPAN", but only those on which our developing enterprise API's depend. Stephen
