About the Expressiveness of D

[Peter Alexander]

On Wednesday, 3 April 2013 at 02:44:15 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> If we did datetime all over again, I'd give a budget of 2000 
> lines for all functionality. I bet the solution would be better.

I think you are massively underestimating the complexity and 
subtleties of dates and time.

For comparison, min and max in std.algorithm come to nearly 200 
lines on their own, and their unittests are hopelessly lacking. 
Things like min(uint.min, int.max) are not tested, even though 
there's specific code to handle them. To suggest that date and 
time handling is a mere 10x more complex than min/max is a bit 
naive in my opinion.