On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 02:55:10PM -0500, David Nicol wrote:
I like the fact that the perl documentation is peppered
with correct uses of effect as a verb.
I doubt the wisdom of continuing to talk about Y2K compliance,
here in Y2K+5. We could talk about Y2100 compliance.
I think folks understand that Y2K is not just about the year 2000 but about
using truncated years in general and its not necessary to coin a new term.
Same problem, different century. Also...
Note that the $year element is lnot simply one hundered plus the
last two digits of the year. By assuming that it is you will create
non-Y2100-compliant code and guarantee your grandchildren careers
in computer maintenance.
I can understand people in 1998 assuming 98 is the last two digits of the
year and never bothering to look at the docs, but someone mistaking 105 as
being one hundred plus the last two digits of the year... that seems a bit
contrived.
Possibly the best solution I've seen to this problem was the one employed
in Clinton Pierce's surprisingly well written Learn Perl In 24 Hours.
Its not a year, stop calling it that. Its years offset from 1900. His book
always refers to it as $year_offset or $year_off but never $year.
--
Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern
Just call me 'Moron Sugar'.
http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp05182002.shtml
