Re: RFC 48 (v1) Replace localtime() and gmtime() with da

[Dan Sugalski]

At 03:52 PM 8/7/00 -0400, Andy Dougherty wrote:
>Yes, obviously it has been used by many.  That means that the equivalent
>functionality needs to be provided somehow in the complete standard perl6
>distribution.  It doesn't mean localtime() has to be a keyword with its
>very own opcode that is part of the core language.  It could be part of a
>module.  In fact it already is in perl5:  POSIX::localtime.

Whether localtime remains a keyword is up to Larry, with advice from the list.

It's amazingly unlikely to have its own opcode anymore, though. (Not that 
it matters, as long as enough Weird Magic is provided. :)

                                        Dan

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