On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Stephen Adkins wrote:

> Hi,
>
> It says in the documentation for Class::Date that it was derived
> from Time::Object (from the Time::Piece distribution).
>
> Does anyone know why?
> Why was Time::Object not simply extended?

We had a fight about the code. His code is horrible, really quite ugly. So
I wouldn't accept his patches. We also fought about what should be in
the project's scope. I wanted Time::Object(Piece) to be simple, and he
wanted it to do all sorts of things like be able to automatically handle
MySQL's date format (?!!).

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