Please vote on std.datetime

[Seth Hoenig]

+1 for inclusion, including the unittests just the way they are.

Why? Because I've been waiting for a decent datetime module for a while and
this looks like one. There's no good reason not to include the unittests.
Yes, there is an abundance of them. But there's _huge_ potential for small,
off-by-one bugs in something like this, and I think maximum coverage, even
if some of it overlaps, can only be a good thing.




On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 8:40 PM, Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg at gmx.com>wrote:

> On Thursday 09 December 2010 16:26:13 Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> > Jonathan M. Davis has diligently worked on his std.datetime proposal,
> > and it has been through a few review cycles in this newsgroup.
> >
> > It's time to vote. Please vote for or against inclusion of datetime into
> > Phobos, along with your reasons.
>
> Well, I'm obviously voting for inclusion. ;)
>
> I wrote it. I'm not about to claim that it's perfect, but overall I like it
> and
> think that it's quite good. Unfortunately, either most everyone likes it
> and has
> said nothing, or they (understandably) didn't want to read it.
>
> I would point out though, that as it stands, including std.datetime would
> require including my time module as core.time (which has been discussed to
> some
> extent with Sean, since it was pretty much his idea in the first place that
> some
> level of integration should occur there) as well as including my unittests
> module as something like std.unittests (which was reviewed here on some
> level,
> and has definitely been improved from its initial version, but hasn't
> exactly had
> overwhelming support). The unittest functions could be integrated privately
> into
> std.datetime, but I think that that would be a disservice to the community
> at
> large.
>
> Regardless, I'm obviously for including it.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis
>
>
> P.S. The most recent code is here: http://is.gd/hYwOV
>
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