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

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

Eric Bezault wrote:
> Colin Paul Adams wrote:
>>>>>>> "Eric" == Eric Bezault <er...@go...> writes:
>>
>>     Eric> I don't know what I prefer yet. I've been put in front of a
>>     Eric> fact with not prior notice (the date/time library now
>>     Eric> depends on regexp and math) and I'm still trying to
>>     Eric> understand why this was done and whether this was really
>>     Eric> needed.
>>
>> I thought it was the natural place for date and time formatting.
>> But now you've pointed out some disadvantages, I think a separate
>> formatting library might be better.
> 
> Not necessarily. What bothers me is that it looks like using
> a power drill to kill a fly. Why does it need to use regexp
> and math? Why does it need auxiliary classes like that?
> As I said I don't really have time to review the code now,
> but I guess I will have to do that anyway if I want to fully
> understand ;-(

I definitely don't have time to review it now. So what I
suggest is that we let it like that for the time being so
that I can propagate the change to AXAR without further
delay, and I will have a closer look at it later when
time permits (ideally before the next release of Gobo).

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