+1 on Time::Piece. I like the more verbose example Gerald gave:
$date3 = $date+{years=>1,months=>2,days=>3};
I think it will would be easy for new users to understand what is going on and
maintainers to now what took place.
The $date3 = $date+[1,2,3]; version is *sweet*, but seems more cool then
handy or does this start that old war on the speed advantage of an array over a
hash?
Aaron Johnson
Gerald Richter wrote:
> > > $date2 = $date+'3Y 2D'; # 3 Years and 2 days
> >
> > $date2 = $date + (3 * ONE_YEAR) + (2 * ONE_DAY);
> >
> > > $date3 = $date+[1,2,3]; # $date plus 1 year, 2 months, 3 days
> > > $date4 = $date+'3-1-5' # $date plus 3 years, 1 months, 5 days
> >
> > Similar for these.
> >
>
> ok, I see
>
> > Yes, it's more verbose. Not much I can say about that. I could potentially
> > add some sort of strptime functionality to Time::Seconds so you could
> > parse '3Y 2D', and '3-1-5'.
> >
> > > Of course that could be done with Time::Piece, but you have to create to
> > > objects.
> >
> > Not true, as you see. I'm not convinced of the value of all this
> > overloading of stringification. It seems like very dangerous syntactic
> > sugar to me. And it's almost certainly not internationalised.
> >
>
> I agree to you for the stringification, but I find something like
>
> $date3 = $date+[1,2,3]; # $date plus 1 year, 2 months, 3 days
>
> really handy and maybe
>
> $date3 = $date+{years=>1,months=>2,days=>3}; # $date plus 1 year, 2
> months, 3 days
>
> this is as verbose as the string version, but doesn't have the disadvantages
> of it. I guess both wouldn't be hard to add to Time::Piece.
>
> One point from my point of view that is speaking for Time::Piece is, that
> Matt is very active (not only) on the p5ee list, so we could expect that he
> will adapt Time::Piece for p5ee as far as it is needed.
>
> +1 for Time::Piece
>
> Gerald
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