On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 10:31 +0300, Robin Vickery wrote: > On 22/05/07, Robert Cummings <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 13:47 -0500, Greg Donald wrote: > > > On 5/22/07, Robert Cummings <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Nothing said it was important, but why implement a half-assed solution > > > > when you can implement a superior solution in as much time? > > > > > > Your solution contains overhead you don't even know you need. Coding > > > for locales is an edge case since most PHP installs will find the > > > server settings sufficient. > > > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YAGNI > > > > > > > I'll accept ignorance and sloppiness as reasons... albeit not good > > > > reasons. > > > > > > You assume too much and your solution is bloated. Accept that. > > > > No, your solution is bloated. Mine may run a tad slower, but it consumes > > less memory since it uses the weekday names already defined in the > > locale. Yours redefines the strings thus requiring that much extra > > storage. Yours is redundant with information already available in the > > locale. The YAGNI claim is irrelevant here since I'm producing the > > requested functionality that the poster obviously needs. Whether I use > > your method or my method is irrelevant to YAGNI. > > they're all bloated: > > print jddayofweek($day_number, 1); Very nice, and it's based off the locale. I wasn't aware of these functions... Looks like I've learnt something :) Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------' -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
