Re: Tadayoshi Funaba's Date2

On Saturday 30 October 2004 06:26 am, David A. Black wrote:
| > | I haven't looked closely for implementation differences, but just
| > | grepping for def's, it looks like he's put very nearly all of it in
| > | the core date.rb (which he also wrote).  (The only exception I can
| > | find is #to_datetime.)
| >
| > He doesn't seem to make a comparison between his work and Ruby's, except
| > to say his is an alternative. But considering he has written his own
| > calendar app, I imagine he had his reasons. I will write him and ask.
| > BTW: This also impressed:
|
| His work *is* Ruby's.  As I said above, he wrote date.rb in the
| standard distribution.
|
| #
| # date.rb - date and time library
| #
| # Author: Tadayoshi Funaba 1998-2004
|
| As I said, it appears that he's merged most of date2 into recent
| date.rb's, if my examination of the two is correct.

Oh, I see. I misread (over looked the word "core"). Sorry.

The RAA entry should probaby be remove then, or reworded at least.

Thanks,
T.