Firstly, I’m not planning on breaking compatibility with Type::Params. The new API would live under a different namespace, such as Type::Params2.
The API for Type::Params is currently:
use feature 'state'; use Type::Params qw( compile compile_named_oo ); use Types::Standard -types; sub function_with_positional_parameters { state $check = compile( ArrayRef, Int, Int ); my ( $list, $start, $end ) = $check->( @_ ); my @slice = @{$list}[ $start .. $end ]; return \@slice; } sub function_with_named_parameters { state $check = compile_named_oo( list => ArrayRef, start => Int, end => Int ); my ( $arg ) = $check->( @_ ); my @slice = @{$arg->list}[ $arg->start .. $arg->end ]; return \@slice; }
Alternatively, there’s:
use Type::Params qw( wrap_subs compile_named_oo ); use Types::Standard -types; wrap_subs function_with_positional_parameters => [ ArrayRef, Int, Int ]; sub function_with_positional_parameters { my ( $list, $start, $end ) = @_; my @slice = @{$list}[ $start .. $end ]; return \@slice; } wrap_subs function_with_named_parameters => compile_named_oo( list => ArrayRef, start => Int, end => Int ); sub function_with_named_parameters { my ( $arg ) = @_; my @slice = @{$arg->list}[ $arg->start .. $arg->end ]; return \@slice; }
My suggested API is:
use feature 'state'; use Type::Params2; use Types::Standard -types; sub function_with_positional_parameters { state $check = signature( pos => [ ArrayRef, Int, Int ], ); my ( $list, $start, $end ) = $check->( @_ ); my @slice = @{$list}[ $start .. $end ]; return \@slice; } sub function_with_named_parameters { state $check = signature( named => [ list => ArrayRef, start => Int, end => Int ], ); my ( $arg ) = $check->( @_ ); my @slice = @{$arg->list}[ $arg->start .. $arg->end ]; return \@slice; }
It would also support the inside-out technique:
use Type::Params2; use Types::Standard -types; signature_for function_with_positional_parameters => ( pos => [ ArrayRef, Int, Int ], ); sub function_with_positional_parameters { my ( $list, $start, $end ) = @_; my @slice = @{$list}[ $start .. $end ]; return \@slice; } signature_for function_with_named_parameters => ( named => [ list => ArrayRef, start => Int, end => Int ], ); sub function_with_named_parameters { my ( $arg ) = @_; my @slice = @{$arg->list}[ $arg->start .. $arg->end ]; return \@slice; }
There would be a shortcut for methods:
signature_for method_with_named_parameters => ( method => 1, named => [ list => ArrayRef, start => Int, end => Int ], ); sub method_with_named_parameters { my ( $self, $arg ) = @_; my @slice = @{$arg->list}[ $arg->start .. $arg->end ]; return \@slice; }
Comments? Do people think this would be an improvement?