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  • I'd probably be willing to put set_day_of_week into DateTime.pm proper. I don't know about the sugar methods though.

    Regardless, DateTime::Weekdays probably isn't the right namespace. Please come discuss this on the datetime@perl.org list.

    • I know this is not the proper venue – I saw the pointer to the mailing list. I posted here instead of to the list because, well, I’d have to subscribe to the list, and then I’d be subscribed to yet another Perl list. I am on way too many of those already… I guess I should consolidate the mailboxes for the low-traffic lists and suck it up.

      Also, I know it’s not a good name. Don’t worry, I’m not putting this on CPAN quite yet. :-) That’s why I posted an RFC.

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      • I think set_day_of_week is a bad name and doesn't belong in the core of DateTime. The name doesn't really uniquely identify what the method does and implies several different inconsistent possibilities for its semantics.

        I think it'd be better if this functionality were wrapped in a DateTime::Set, which would give you the next and previous methods you are looking for. Maybe DateTime::Set::ByWeekday?

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        J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers

        • That sounds reasonable; I’m just not sure it makes sense. There is nothing of interest about the set as a whole: it’s no more than a set with weekly recurrence (and you can easily construct it that way if you do need such a set). The only property of interest is that 2 (or 3) specific members of the set are closest to a particular date.

          Also, I wanted to roll in a way to find the passed weekday that falls within the same week as the given date. To me there seems to be no reasonable way to conce

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