On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Edward S. Peschko wrote: > > >> This sort of creeping featuritis is why date formatting and especially > > >> parsing do NOT belong as opcodes. It's too big a problem to solve in the > > > > I agree. > > > And the more I think about it, the more I think this concern is misplaced. > Putting it in an opcode will make it *harder* to do this type of thing, not easier. > In perl5 land, backwards - and forwards - compatibility is a big concern. There will > be a large tendency to stabilize any implementation that occurs here.
So why do you think time manipulation is about the only thing left out of the x86 ISA? :) -J --
