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Type::Tiny Tricks #7: Tricks with Dicts

23/08/2014

By Toby Inkster

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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

22/08/2014

By Toby Inkster

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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

21/08/2014

By Toby Inkster

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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

20/08/2014

By Toby Inkster

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Type::Tiny Tricks #3: One-off Coercions

19/08/2014

By Toby Inkster

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Type::Tiny Tricks #2: Types Are Objects

18/08/2014

By Toby Inkster

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Type::Tiny Tricks #1: Quick Intersections

17/08/2014

By Toby Inkster

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