On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 09:23:11AM -0400, Nathan Gray wrote: > As I am interested in human-readable dates and times, and having found > no conclusive discussion on time formatting, I make my recommendation > for a syntax (to start discussion, and allow for date formatting to be > implemented in pugs): > > I would like for time() to return an object, which in numeric context is > the number of seconds from the epoch (the new epoch, of course), and > which in string context is a human-readable string. We could also use > localtime(), and leave time() alone.
Just a friendly note that since this is a language design issue (as opposed to an implementation one) this thread likely belongs only on perl6-language and not on perl6-compiler. I'm just trying to keep the traffic on the lists at a reasonable volume ... :-) Followups to p6l, please, unless there's an obvious reason why they need to be on p6c. Pm
