Please vote on std.datetime

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Thu Dec 9 19:04:05 PST 2010


On 12/9/10 6:40 PM, Jonathan M Davis 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

Duly noted, but you can't vote for your own proposal. Jury, please 
remove that from your memory.

Andrei


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