Re: DateTime::Fiscal::Retail454

On Thu, 5 Jul 2012, Jim Bacon wrote:

> I would like the advice of the DT community at large as to what would be 
> a good name for such a module and what namespace it should go in. On the 
> surface one would say DT::Calendar, but the module would create dates 
> for various events such as the start and end dates for fiscal periods 
> and reporting dates as well as being able to answer questions such as 
> "What fiscal period does a given holiday occur in?" This would suggest 
> that DT::Event might be better. That said, because of the planned 
> ability to change from one period to another by means of methods such as 
> "next" and "previous" neither "Event" or "Calendar" might be appropriate 
> as they seem to imply a static condition and this would be decidedly 
> dynamic. This argues for keeping the new module in the "Fiscal" 
> namespace with an appropriate name.

If the module is about giving a DateTime object for an event, like the 
"next year in this wack calendar system", then it's a DateTime::Event 
module.

If it provides an alternate system for defining dates (Whooping Day 47 of 
Frobnitz Month) then it's a DateTime::Calendar.

If doesn't fit into either API comfortably, just call it DateTimeX::Foo 
and come up with an API that you think best expresses the problems you're 
trying to solve.


-dave

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