[PBP-pm] Working with dates

[Joshua Hoblitt]

On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 01:24:29PM -0800, Jay Buffington wrote:
> DateTime breaks the "Named Arguments" best practice from the PBP book
> (chapter 9, page 182).  It seems intuitive to me that the opposite
> should be true and that returning hashes is bad for similiar reasons.
> i.e. what if the users does something like this:
> my @date = get_date();

Huh?  What DateTime method returns a hash (the constructors and mutators
return blessed hash reference but that's hardly the same thing)?

Does POSIX.pm follow PBP or Date::Parse or Date::Manip?

Cheers,

-J

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