Planet Moose – August 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,…
Type-Tiny
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,…
Because Sometimes Lightspeed is Too Slow
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…
Planet Moose – March 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…
Notice: forthcoming change to Type::Tiny overloading
One of the features of Type::Tiny that differentiates it from Moose’s built-in type constraint system is that it allows stand-alone coercions which can then be mixed with type constraints as required. So if you had a Split coercion which split…
Planet Moose – February 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…
Towards Type::Tiny 1.000000
Type::Tiny has been knocking around in some shape or another for almost a year now. It’s certainly grown a lot since its first commit. The distribution probably no longer merits the “Tiny” name, though the lead module itself is…
Acme-oop-ism Part Two: Type::Tiny
Acme-oop-ism is about writing code that works in Moose, Mouse and Moo. Type::Tiny was born of frustration with how MooX::Types::MooseLike handles “inflation”. Inflation is how Moo handles interacting with Moose. I’m simplifying here, but when Moo detects that Moose…
Planet Moose – August 2013
Welcome to the first edition of Planet Moose, a brief write up on what’s been happening in the world of Moose this month, for the benefit of those of you who don’t have their eyes permanently glued to the…
Type::Tiny – not just for attributes
OK, so I’ve gotten back from the May Day parade, had some lunch, and now it’s time for me to write about Type::Tiny some more……
Introducing Type::Tiny
Type::Tiny is a tiny (no non-core dependencies) framework for building type constraints. OK, probably not that exciting. How can I grab your attention? Rate WithMoose WithMooseAndTypeTiny WithMoose 8071/s — -25% WithMooseAndTypeTiny 10778/s 34% — The benchmark script is shown…
