From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2005-08-15T21:54:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Seven lone Time methods

On 8/15/05, nobu.nokada@softhome.net <nobu.nokada@softhome.net> wrote:
> At Mon, 15 Aug 2005 21:16:13 +0900,
> Trans wrote in [ruby-talk:152194]:
> > Time is a core class of Ruby's. So why do we have to
> >
> >   require 'time'
> >
> > in order to gain these seven methods?
> >
> >    httpdate, iso8601, parse, rfc2822, rfc822, xmlschema, zone_offset
> >
> > What aren't they already there? (especailly #parse)
> 
> I guess they are easier in ruby than C.

Fair enough, but is there no way to make these available by default,
just the same way that Time is?

-austin
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