svn commit: samba r8759 - in branches/SAMBA_4_0/source: libnet torture/libnet

[Rafal Szczesniak]

On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 09:52:10AM +1000, tridge at samba.org wrote:
> Andrew,
> 
>  > While I can agree to some extent on your last point, I have to disagree
>  > on the use of text strings for dates.
> 
> indeed!

Ah, controversial idea :)

>  >  While that might be quite fine in a scripting language (that's
>  > what they are good for),
> 
> strings for dates in scripting languages is horrible too. The language
> should provide a way to format as a pretty string when outputting to a
> human, but using strings for the internal representation is awful.

I thought of it only as a way to pass a values to a function. Nothing
more.


cheers,
-- 
Rafal Szczesniak
Samba Team member  http://www.samba.org

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