On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 12:55:01AM -0800, Ovid wrote: > ----- Original Message ---- > > > From: Jesse Luehrs <d...@tozt.net> > > > That's a runtime bug which probably shouldn't be there, but Moose doesn't > > really have a way of detecting that. Being able to change your 'isa' is > > arguably worse than being able to add a trigger :) > > > > What's the issue here? This dies for me, saying that '2' isn't a valid > > Bool, which is what i'd expect it to do. > > Yes, but changing the parent attribute of 'Int' to a 'Bool'? That doesn't > make sense, and thus, changing 'isa' is a bit dodgy. That could have been a > composition-time error, but allowing the change to isa makes it a > runtime-error. > > > (I'm not arguing for being more restrictive here, though. I suspect this > would break a ton of code :)
Yeah, this issue was considered, and decided against for just that reason(: This is just one of those things that people expect to work, even though it might cause confusing issues if you use it badly. -doy
