[racket-dev] added function to srfi-19....

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> I think it's a bad idea to extend the SRFI modules with new functions.

I agree with this.

> Would it make sense to move functionality from SRFI-19 into
> `racket/date' and then add the new functions there (and maybe change
> the SRFI-19 implementation to re-export part of `racket/date')?
>
> At Tue, 3 May 2011 14:48:42 -0700, John Clements wrote:
>> It was driving me crazy that srfi-19 had no way to convert seconds to times,
>> especially given the fact that it appears that the internal representation used
>> by srfi 19's time-utc was the result of (current-seconds).... so I added
>> seconds->time-utc and time-utc->seconds, along with test cases.
>>
>> Unfortunately, I have no obvious way of documenting them. Let me know if
>> there's a way I should be documenting this, or if it's a bad idea to extend the
>> interface like this.
>>
>> John Clements
>
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