Please vote on std.datetime

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Thursday 09 December 2010 19:04:05 Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> 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.

LOL. True enough. My vote obviously doesn't count. It would obviously be a bad 
sign though if I didn't think that it should be included.

- Jonathan M Davis