Yes, in my warped mathematics, 0.042 is nearly 1.000000. Exporter::Tiny is a module I split out of the Type::Tiny distribution. It's an exporter, offering roughly the same capabilities as Sub::Exporter, but with a lighter footprint. I've not massively promoted it,…
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…
As you may be aware, I'm writing a book which will eventually become a free e-book. (Oh how I'm beginning to hate the e- prefix on everything vaguely related to computers. Or should I call them e-machines?) This is my…
I've recently released a new module called Object::Util to CPAN. This is a set of handy methods for working with classes and objects in Perl. It is inspired by Safe::Isa, a module which takes advantage of the fact that coderefs…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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,…
This is a slightly expanded version of a comment I posted a couple of days ago on NEILB's blog. Neil was mostly talking about private functions, while I'll be talking mostly about private methods (i.e. object-oriented programming), but I…
OK, so I'm working on a project and some unexpected bug crops up. It turns out to be a bug in a dependency. I could work around it, but… I happen to maintain the dependency, so better to fix…
I've pushed Type::Tiny 0.045_03 to CPAN this afternoon. Initial results from CPAN testers seem promising, but if you've got a distribution that uses Type::Tiny it might be worth trying it out with the new version to see if anything…
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,…
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,…