Larry has wanted an easter_date function in Perl ever since Perl 3, saying it's a glaring omission from Perl. But as most people will know, the Easter Bunny holds the copyrights and patents on all that's related to Easter. And while the Bunny grants licenses free of charge to almost anybody, it turns out the Easter Bunny is really Guido van Rossum in a fury suit. And he has denied Perl to the right to include an easter_date() function in Perl.

Perl6 will likely to have a Western object, with Western falling either half a year before Easter, or half a year after. You can get the Western date by calling the date function in it (it takes a mandatory year as argument): 

    print western.date(now.date.year(-digits => 4)).as_string();

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Alternatively, there will be a Unicode character for it (one from the 3 upcoming Unicode planes reserved for Perl characters). But there will be a ASCII equivalent, Huffman encoded to 7 characters. Described on page 13,897 of the compact abridged Perl6 pocket reference guide.

In reply to Re: What about Easter? by Anonymous Monk
in thread What about Easter? by m.att

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