From: Warren Young
Date: October 17 2006 12:28am
Subject: Re: another question
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Королев Илья wrote:
> 
> why DateTime isn't a descendant of Date & Time?

I don't see why it is important to argue about past design decisions. 
It is the way it is.

> I guess it should be useful.

If you agree that going forward is more important than arguing about the 
past, then please provide some examples of where a change in the class 
hierarchy would make it work better.  Without that, we have no incentive 
to change it.  Aesthetics alone isn't a good enough reason to break the ABI.