Re: prefixes and namespaces?
- Posted by yuku <yuku at i?itek?com> Apr 25, 2008
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Matt Lewis wrote: > > Jeremy Cowgar wrote: > > > > Salix wrote: > > > > > > I vote for prefixes. I think the datetime_compare() example > > > is great beacuse it shows how confusing it could be for a newbie. > > > > That's one big stumbling block to me about totally no prefix. I'd like to > > hear > > an solution that addresses compare() directly. > > Since the format of a datetime is: > {year, month, date, hour, minute, second} > ...it already works with the built-in compare, so datetime_compare() is > redundant. If it didn't, an alternative solution would be to either > make it so, or to call it something other than compare. Better to change > one exception than an encumber an entire library. It is because the current implementation use that data structure. (I simplified it from the {{d,m,y},{h,n,s}} used by original datetime.e). But can we be sure that it is fixed like that? One pitfall for users: they won't be able to use built-in date() as argument to compare().