Re: [RFC] Enhancing DateTime::Format::Natural

On Sat, 19 Jan 2008, Steven Schubiger wrote:

> As some of you might recall, DateTime::Format::Natural used to
> ship with multiple language support (english and german), but back
> then the entire concept was flawed (no functional tokeniser/lexer
> combination) and some ugly workarounds were applied to circumvent
> the limitations in the design implemented.
>
> Since it now features a pluggable grammar, I'd be interested in
> hearing whether someone would like to see other language metadata
> integrated and more importantly, whether the person in question would
> be eager enough to implement most of it on its own. I surely could
> lend a helping hand by outlining how a grammar class is structured.
>
> I'm convinced that additional language sets can be mostly seamlessly
> integrated given the current tokeniser/lexer & the dispatch table
> (>= 0.50); it would require some time though on behalf of the implementor
> (tests would have to be written too, though).

This might be a great subject for some small TPF grants, if anyone out 
there is interested.


-dave

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