[Python-ideas] Date/time literals

[Nick Coghlan]

On 30/05/10 13:10, Marcos Bonci wrote:
> And I still fail to see any disadvantage in having date and time
> literals (probably as shortcuts for the already existing datetime types,
> or a future version of them).

The same disadvantage that any new syntax has: it increases the size of 
the language, making it harder to learn and harder to implement.

Why make date/time literals a special case, when they can be dealt with 
quite adequately as a standard module? (the existing module may have 
some odd quirks, but that's a far cry from needing to be given literal 
syntax).

Cheers,
Nick.

-- 
Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia
---------------------------------------------------------------