Re: formats and localtime

[Damian Conway]

   > >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?

I have a paper on that ;-)

As soon as my brain arrives back in my native timezone, I'll will be putting
forward an RFC (one of many) on modularizing C<format> along the lines of my
Text::Autoformat::form subroutine.

Damian