use warnings; use strict; package MyDate { use Moo; use Types::Standard qw/ Int /; use Carp; use Date::Calc qw/Today/; use namespace::clean; has year => ( is=>'ro', required=>1, isa=>Int ); has month => ( is=>'ro', required=>1, isa=>Int ); has day => ( is=>'ro', required=>1, isa=>Int ); around BUILDARGS => sub { my ( $orig, $class, %args ) = @_; my %newargs; # NOTE: This does not handle incorrect arguments! if ( keys %args ) { if ( keys %args == 3 ) { %newargs = %args; } elsif ( $args{date} ) { @newargs{qw/year month day/} = $args{date}=~/^(\d{4})(\d\d)(\d\d)$/ or croak "bad date $args{date}"; } } else { my ($year,$month,$day) = Today(); %newargs = (year=>$year, month=>$month, day=>$day); } return $class->$orig(%newargs); }; sub ymd { my $self = shift; return $self->year.'-'.$self->month.'-'.$self->day; } } print "1. ", MyDate->new()->ymd, "\n"; print "2. ", MyDate->new(year=>2019, month=>5, day=>14)->ymd, "\n"; print "3. ", MyDate->new(date=>20190512)->ymd, "\n"; __END__ 1. 2019-5-16 2. 2019-5-14 3. 2019-05-12