----- Original Message ----
> From: fREW Schmidt <fri...@gmail.com>
> To: Hans Dieter Pearcey <h...@pobox.com>
> Cc: moose <moose@perl.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 11:53:35 AM
> Subject: Re: MooseX::Types to core?
>
> On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Hans Dieter Pearcey wrote:
>
> > Whenever we've talked about coring MooseX modules, it's mostly been MXAH
> > and
> > MooseX::Types. Does anyone have any changes they'd like to see in
> > MX::Types
> > before it becomes, say, Moose::Types? (Moose::TypeConstraints?)
> >
> > For myself:
> >
> > * Warn/die on subtype DeclaredType => as Foo => where { ... } (accidental
> > stringification) -- I thought someone had fixed this, but it came up as a
> > silent failure recently, so maybe not in all cases?
> >
> > * Standardize on a best practice for parameterized non-global types (e.g.
> > ArrayRef[MyObject] vs. ArrayRefOfMyObject) and make documentation use it
> > consistently
> > * if the former, the RT bug about coercions needs to be fixed
> >
> > * smarter renaming of imports -- e.g. if you try to import Foo from a type
> > library, with -prefix => 'My', it'd really be nice to get to_MyFoo and
> > is_MyFoo helpers instead of Myto_Foo and Myis_Foo
> >
> > * MooseX::Types::Moose -> Moose::Types::Native (maybe)
> >
> > * Should Structured be included?
> >
> > hdp.
> >
>
>
> +1 for Types w/o Moose.
>
> But back on the original topic, something that bothers me about MX::Types is
> that you can't have : in a type name. I mostly use that for signature stuff
> in catch blocks w/ TryCatch. Although I guess the existent Moose types
> system allows for : in the names so maybe the inclusion would resolve that
> issue.
Since a MooseX::Type type constraint is basically an exported function I don't
think we'd every get ':" supported as part of the name. The string based types
built into Moose allow this and anything else you can put into a string.
Can you provide a more detailed example of your use and hoped for syntax?
John
>
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> fREW Schmidt
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