OpenEuphoria

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().