[ moved to perl6-language ]
On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 02:40:20PM -0400, Chaim Frenkel wrote:
>Language
> -> Obsolete Features
> -> 1. Formats are not commonly used ....
>
>I'm sorry where did this come from. I use formats regularly and quite
>usefully.
>
>I suspect that those folks that haven't gone through the grist of
>COBOL or some other mainframe reporting language just don't get how
>useful it really is.
I used to use them lots, but I've kind of stopped since I started using
strict for all my scripts.
I get the impression that those who used Perl 4 still like formats, and
would like them to work. However, those who started with Perl 5 and web
development tend not to use it. Lots of people use templating tools
like mjd's Text::Template module, instead.
>Unless you replace it with something better. (Postscript or TeX or ...)
>You'll have a hard time finding something that makes life so easy.
How about a Format module that works pretty much exactly the same way
but isn't actually in the Perl core?
>Language
> -> Unixcentrism
> -> 1.PROBLEM: localtime's behaviour is non-intuitive for non-Unix people
>
>How can this be changed and still preserve any semblence of backward
>compatiblity?
By adding a Date module to the standard library and encouraging its use?
K.
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