Re: [gobo-eiffel-develop] Date/time formatting

[Eric B. <er...@go...>]

Colin Paul Adams wrote:
>     Eric> I can see that people who don't care about XSLT and XPath
>     Eric> will have more classes to compile. Will there be people who
>     Eric> will use these new functionalities in the date/time library
>     Eric> and not the xslt/xpath libraries?
> 
> Yes.

Who?

>     Eric>If it is likely that people who will use
>     Eric> these new functionalities will also use the xslt/xpath
>     Eric> libraries, then what about having all that in a cluster
>     Eric> 'time' in these libraries?
> 
> The refactoring is precisely so you DON'T have to compile the XPath
> and XSLT libraries in to your application to get these formatting
> routines.

But now even if you don't need these functionalities you have
to compile regexp and math when you use the date/time library.
Which is better?

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