In message <13823.62501.12960.906883@localhost>, Nathan Myers <ncm@cantrip.org> wrote:

The names strfxtime, xtime_make, and xtime_breakup are inconsistent and not ideally chosen. May I suggest instead

xtime_format: "To plan or arrange in a specified form" xtime_compose: "To make or create by putting together parts or elements." xtime_resolve: "To separate (something) into constituent parts."

respectively? (Quotes are from the Random House unabridged dictionary.)

There is an old tradition of language design that the language and its libraries strongly avoid using identifiers starting with the letter "x" --- a desperate application writer can then blithely prepenend an "x" to all its first-choice identifiers and be safe. I'd much prefer to see this tradition upheld; perhaps: timex_format, timex_compose, timex_resolve or time_xformat, time_xcompose, time_xresolve instead? --Ken Pizzini