Woolly & Tig “Going to School”
Oh man, I can’t believe I missed the latest Woolly & Tig special. It was apparently broadcast the same day we went off on holiday.
Month: August 2014
Data::Dumper Debugging
I've never really used the Perl debugger much (maybe I should learn?) and usually resort to lots of use Data::Dumper; print Dumper($somevar); statements to help me understand what's going wrong with a piece of code. However, what I often find…
Type::Tiny Tricks #7: Tricks with Dicts
In Perl, hashes are typically used for two sorts of purposes: maps (where the hash key acts as an object identifier) and dictionaries (where the hash key acts like a field name). A quick illustration of what I mean…
Type::Tiny Tricks #6: Tricks with Tuples
Let's say you want an attribute to accept a pair of numbers – perhaps a geographic co-ordinates [ 50.873, -0.002 ]. You could constrain the attribute as ArrayRef[Num], but that would accept an arrayref containing a single number, or…
Type::Tiny Tricks #5: Wrapping Moose/Mouse Type Constraints
So you have this Moo class, and it turns out what you really need for it is the StrictVersionStr type constraint defined in MooseX::Types::Perl. You could switch the class to Moose, but long term you want to stick with…
Type::Tiny Tricks #4: Inlined Type Constraints
Type::Tiny Tricks #3: One-off Coercions
Type::Tiny Tricks #2: Types Are Objects
Type::Tiny Tricks #1: Quick Intersections
Type::Tiny 1.000000 Released
It's been almost 17 months, and over 160 releases to get there, but Type-Tiny 1.000000 has been released on CPAN Day 2014. Type-Tiny is a framework for type constraints and coercions. It can be used for isa checks in Moose,…
Planet Moose – July 2014
Welcome to Planet Moose, a brief write up on what's been happening in the world of Moose in the past month, for the benefit of those of you who don't have their eyes permanently glued to the #moose IRC channel,…
