Re: Namespace for common datatypes

2003-10-16 Thread Michael A Nachbaur
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 01:02 pm, Mark Stosberg wrote: > > I'm going to be creating a set of wrapper classes that presents a common > > interface to some of the CPAN modules that supports the above datatypes > > and just does the "Right Thing???". > > Could you say more about what the "Right T

Re: Namespace for common datatypes

2003-10-15 Thread Mark Stosberg
> I'm going to be creating a set of wrapper classes that presents a common > interface to some of the CPAN modules that supports the above datatypes and > just does the "Right Thing???". Could you say more about what the "Right Thing" is, or give an example? That might help the discussion of th

Namespace for common datatypes

2003-10-15 Thread Michael A Nachbaur
I've been refactoring an intranet application to use Class::DBI, and one of the things that's been bothering me has been the inconsistant perl modules for different data types (e.g. dates/times, currancy, intervals, ethernet addresses, et al). I'm going to be creating a set of wrapper classes t