Re: DateTime::Span - a span created with before has the same range as a span created with end

[email protected] (Zefram)
Newsgroups perl.datetime
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Terrence Brannon wrote:
>Intuitively, it would seem that specifying the 'before' of a datetime
>span using the end option of the ->from_datetimes() constructor would
>yield a range that is 1 second (1 nanosecond?) earlier than the actual
>date supplied.

I would not find that intuitive.  Your 1 second or 1 nanosecond would
be a completely arbitrary mutation of the supplied data.  Whether the
endpoint is included in or excluded from the span needs to be accessible
somehow, but it's not a finite difference in where the endpoint is.

-zefram
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