[ANSI-Smalltalk] Dates & Times

[Steve Wart]

There are a few more I can think of that don't seem to be on the list

Primitives/Foreign Function Interfaces - this is something that GIlad was
quite critical about in Smalltalk.
Namespaces
Packaging

Standards in these areas could be quite beneficial. It seems to me that
things that can be implemented at the library level are maybe less important
than things that inhibit sharing code between Smalltalk implementations.

Bruce, thanks for posting that link. I couldn't find it in the archives and
was embarrassed to ask for it :)

Steve

On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 12:23 AM, Bruce Badger <bwbadger at gmail.com> wrote:

> Richard,
>
> We don't seem to have a Step addressing Time as yet:
>
>  http://smalltalk.gnu.org/step/steps-smalltalk-enhancement-proposals
>
> Would you be willing to lead the creation of one?
>
> All the best,
>    Bruce
>
> 2008/9/5 Richard A. O'Keefe <ok at cs.otago.ac.nz>:
> > What I'm really concerned about is things like the
> > DateAndTime class, where the ANSI specification
> > appears to be unimplementable.  There are two
> > conflicting requirements: we must be able to do
> > arithmetic on these timestamps, and they must be
> > in UTC. This requires the ability to predict leap
> > seconds for hundreds of years in advance...
>
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