• From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• To: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>, xml-dev@l...
• Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2001 11:46:35 -0400

At 8:31 AM -0700 4/4/01, Tim Bray wrote:

>Speaking as the designated minimalist around here, it does
>seem like a typing scheme sans dates is awfully crippled.
>  -Tim

Yes, but I'm certainly not arguing that there should never be a date 
type. However, if it can't be done right at the current time, I'd 
rather not lock in the mistakes. As a stopgap measure, it's not that 
hard to use regular expressions to derive custom date types.

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