[moby] Re: [MOBY-dev] Migration of database to new API

Mark Wilkinson markw at illuminae.com
Fri Oct 7 14:47:29 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 11:16 +0200, Pieter Neerincx wrote:

> Anyway, for the DateTime primitive things are still a bit strange.  
> Currently DateTime ISA String ISA Object. All other primitives are  
> simply ISA Object. This will change to DateTime ISA Object and HASA  
> String. According to the spec DateTime shouldn't have a String,  
> because it is by itself already a primitive... In the current  
> situation DateTime is not a primitive, but just yet another type of  
> String.

Okay, I'll have a look at this today.  Might be "just a bug" rather than
a systemic error :-)

M





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