At 22:01 09/05/2003 +0200, J.Pietschmann wrote:
>Some of the complexity is hard to avoid, and in part
>due to other standards not delivering necessary specs.
>In particular the date/period types and algebra should
>already have been done somewhere else (ISO 8601 or a
>successor). Same for regexps.
>
>There's still the mess caused by the numeric types, which
>certainly *could* have been avoided.
I think the date addition is the one item I would support.
Whether it needs to be a type I doubt, though obtaining
formatting and date arithmetic are requested additions.
regards DaveP
