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in thread Comparing Dates

This looks interesting (pure-perl and all), although the fact that it claims it's incomplete at this time would lead me to set it aside and check it later...

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As an aside: why do people ignore stated and historical Perl conventions and create methods with StudlyCaps rather than underscored_names? The only place this should be accepted is if a module is echoing an API found from another language that does use StudlyCaps as a convention, like libservlet does with the Java Servlet API.

I understand that people moving from another language where StudlyCaps are used might have a little dissonance with underscores, but a message for these folks: it goes away! I code lots of Java and lots of Perl every day and have no issues with it -- Java has StudlyCaps, Perl has underscored_names. Perl has sigils, Java doesn't. ... It's not that hard! It's all just syntax!

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Chris
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