Dave Rolsky wrote: > On Thu, 8 Apr 2010, Carl Mäsak wrote: > >> I do want to explicitly credit Dave Rolsky, whose work on the DateTime >> family of modules on CPAN has informed much of the current spec, >> sometimes to the point of verbatim copying. > > Thanks, but I'd hate to see you copy all my mistakes too! > > One thing I think is really important is to offer a Date-only object > without a time component. > > The lack of such an object in Perl 5's DateTime family is a real problem. > If you're only interested in dates and date math, time and time zones just > muddies the water.
I've now written such a module: http://github.com/moritz/Date It mostly works with Rakudo, except it doesn't yet export the overloaded operators because of <http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=74104>. Some minor features (like the today() constructor) are not yet implemented. It is very much inspired by Date::Simple on CPAN. There's no documentation yet, but the tests pretty much define the behavior. I've planned to add such a module to the Perl 6 spec, but some comments on #perl6 suggested it should be kept out of core to prevent bloat. Still if the overall opinion is that Perl 6 should have such a module out of the box, I'll be happy to spec it. Cheers, Moritz
