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1 | =pod |
2 | |
3 | =head1 NAME |
4 | |
5 | Moose::Manual::Delta - Important Changes in Moose |
6 | |
7 | =head1 DESCRIPTION |
8 | |
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9 | This documents any important or noteworthy changes in Moose, with a |
10 | focus on backwards. This does duplicate data from the F<Changes> file, |
11 | but aims to provide more details and when possible workarounds. |
12 | |
13 | Besides helping keep up with changes, you can also use this document |
14 | for finding the lowest version of Moose that supported a given |
15 | feature. If you encounter a problem and have a solution but don't see |
16 | it documented here, or think we missed an important feature, please |
17 | send us a patch. |
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18 | |
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19 | =head1 Version 0.89 |
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20 | |
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21 | L<Moose::Meta::Attribute::Native> has been moved into the Moose core from |
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22 | L<MooseX::AttributeHelpers>. Major changes include: |
23 | |
24 | =over |
25 | |
26 | =item C<traits>, not C<metaclass> |
27 | |
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28 | Method providers are only available via traits. |
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29 | |
30 | =item C<handles>, not C<provides> or C<curries> |
31 | |
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32 | The C<provides> syntax was like core Moose C<< handles => HASHREF >> |
33 | syntax, but with the keys and values reversed. This was confusing, |
34 | and AttributeHelpers now uses C<< handles => HASHREF >> in a way that |
35 | should be intuitive to anyone already familiar with how it is used for |
36 | other attributes. |
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37 | |
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38 | The C<curries> functionality provided by AttributeHelpers has been |
39 | generalized to apply to all cases of C<< handles => HASHREF >>, though |
40 | not every piece of functionality has been ported (currying with a |
41 | CODEREF is not supported). |
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42 | |
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43 | =item C<empty> is now C<is_empty>, and means empty, not non-empty |
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44 | |
45 | Previously, the C<empty> method provided by Arrays and Hashes returned true if |
46 | the attribute was B<not> empty (no elements). Now it returns true if the |
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47 | attribute B<is> empty. It was also renamed to C<is_empty>, to reflect this. |
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48 | |
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49 | =item C<find> was renamed to C<first>, and C<first> and C<last> were removed |
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50 | |
51 | L<List::Util> refers to the functionality that we used to provide under C<find> |
52 | as L<first|List::Util/first>, so that will likely be more familiar (and will |
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53 | fit in better if we decide to add more List::Util functions). C<first> and |
54 | C<last> were removed, since their functionality is easily duplicated with |
55 | curries of C<get>. |
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56 | |
57 | =item Helpers that take a coderef of one argument now use C<$_> |
58 | |
59 | Subroutines passed as the first argument to C<first>, C<map>, and C<grep> now |
60 | receive their argument in C<$_> rather than as a parameter to the subroutine. |
61 | Helpers that take a coderef of two or more arguments remain using the argument |
62 | list (there are technical limitations to using C<$a> and C<$b> like C<sort> |
63 | does). |
64 | |
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65 | =item Several new helpers from L<List::Util> and L<List::MoreUtils> were added |
66 | |
67 | In particular, we now have C<reduce>, C<shuffle>, C<uniq>, and C<natatime>. |
68 | |
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69 | =back |
70 | |
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71 | See L<Moose::Meta::Attribute::Native> for the new documentation. |
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72 | |
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73 | C<< use Moose -metaclass => 'Foo' >> now does alias resolution, just like |
74 | C<-traits> (and the C<metaclass> and C<traits> options to C<has>). |
75 | |
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76 | Added two functions C<meta_class_alias> and C<meta_attribute_alias> to |
77 | L<Moose::Util>, to simplify aliasing metaclasses and metatraits. This is |
78 | a wrapper around the old |
79 | |
80 | package Moose::Meta::Class::Custom::Trait::FooTrait; |
81 | sub register_implementation { 'My::Meta::Trait' } |
82 | |
83 | way of doing this. |
84 | |
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85 | The C<alias> and C<excludes> role parameters have been renamed to C<-alias> |
86 | and C<-excludes>. The old names still work, but new code should use the new |
87 | names, and eventually the old ones will be deprecated and removed. |
88 | |
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89 | =head1 Version 0.84 |
90 | |
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91 | When an attribute generates I<no> accessors, we now warn. This is to help |
92 | users who forget the C<is> option. If you really do not want any accessors, |
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93 | you can use C<< is => 'bare' >>. You can maintain back compat with older |
94 | versions of Moose by using something like: |
95 | |
96 | ($Moose::VERSION >= 0.84 ? is => 'bare' : ()) |
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97 | |
98 | When an accessor overwrites an existing method, we now warn. To work around |
99 | this warning (if you really must have this behavior), you can explicitly |
100 | remove the method before creating it as an accessor: |
101 | |
102 | sub foo {} |
103 | |
104 | __PACKAGE__->meta->remove_method('foo'); |
105 | |
106 | has foo => ( |
107 | is => 'ro', |
108 | ); |
109 | |
110 | When an unknown option is passed to C<has>, we now warn. You can silence |
111 | the warning by fixing your code. :) |
112 | |
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113 | The C<Role> type has been deprecated. On its own, it was useless, |
114 | since it just checked C<< $object->can('does') >>. If you were using |
115 | it as a parent type, just call C<role_type('Role::Name')> to create an |
116 | appropriate type instead. |
117 | |
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118 | =head1 Version 0.78 |
119 | |
120 | C<use Moose::Exporter;> now imports C<strict> and C<warnings> into packages |
121 | that use it. |
122 | |
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123 | =head1 Version 0.77 |
124 | |
125 | C<DEMOLISHALL> and C<DEMOLISH> now receive an argument indicating whether or |
126 | not we are in global destruction. |
127 | |
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128 | =head1 Version 0.76 |
129 | |
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130 | Type constraints no longer run coercions for a value that already matches the |
131 | constraint. This may affect some (arguably buggy) edge case coercions that |
132 | rely on side effects in the C<via> clause. |
133 | |
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134 | =head1 Version 0.75 |
135 | |
136 | L<Moose::Exporter> now accepts the C<-metaclass> option for easily |
137 | overriding the metaclass (without L<metaclass>). This works for classes |
138 | and roles. |
139 | |
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140 | =head1 Version 0.74 |
141 | |
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142 | Added a C<duck_type> sugar function to L<Moose::Util::TypeConstraints> |
143 | to make integration with non-Moose classes easier. It simply checks if |
144 | C<< $obj->can() >> a list of methods. |
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145 | |
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146 | A number of methods (mostly inherited from L<Class::MOP>) have been |
147 | renamed with a leading underscore to indicate their internal-ness. The |
148 | old method names will still work for a while, but will warn that the |
149 | method has been renamed. In a few cases, the method will be removed |
150 | entirely in the future. This may affect MooseX authors who were using |
151 | these methods. |
152 | |
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153 | =head1 Version 0.73 |
154 | |
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155 | Calling C<subtype> with a name as the only argument now throws an |
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156 | exception. If you want an anonymous subtype do: |
157 | |
158 | my $subtype = subtype as 'Foo'; |
159 | |
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160 | This is related to the changes in version 0.71_01. |
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161 | |
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162 | The C<is_needed> method in L<Moose::Meta::Method::Destructor> is now |
163 | only usable as a class method. Previously, it worked as a class or |
164 | object method, with a different internal implementation for each |
165 | version. |
166 | |
167 | The internals of making a class immutable changed a lot in Class::MOP |
168 | 0.78_02, and Moose's internals have changed along with it. The |
169 | external C<< $metaclass->make_immutable >> method still works the same |
170 | way. |
171 | |
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172 | =head1 Version 0.72 |
173 | |
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174 | A mutable class accepted C<< Foo->new(undef) >> without complaint, |
175 | while an immutable class would blow up with an unhelpful error. Now, |
176 | in both cases we throw a helpful error instead. |
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177 | |
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178 | This "feature" was originally added to allow for cases such as this: |
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179 | |
180 | my $args; |
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181 | |
182 | if ( something() ) { |
183 | $args = {...}; |
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184 | } |
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185 | |
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186 | return My::Class->new($args); |
187 | |
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188 | But we decided this is a bad idea and a little too magical, because it |
189 | can easily mask real errors. |
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190 | |
191 | =head1 Version 0.71_01 |
192 | |
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193 | Calling C<type> or C<subtype> without the sugar helpers (C<as>, |
194 | C<where>, C<message>) is now deprecated. |
195 | |
196 | As a side effect, this meant we ended up using Perl prototypes on |
197 | C<as>, and code like this will no longer work: |
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198 | |
199 | use Moose::Util::TypeConstraints; |
200 | use Declare::Constraints::Simple -All; |
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201 | |
202 | subtype 'ArrayOfInts' |
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203 | => as 'ArrayRef' |
204 | => IsArrayRef(IsInt); |
205 | |
206 | Instead it must be changed to this: |
207 | |
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208 | subtype( |
209 | 'ArrayOfInts' => { |
210 | as => 'ArrayRef', |
211 | where => IsArrayRef(IsInt) |
212 | } |
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213 | ); |
214 | |
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215 | If you want to maintain backwards compat with older versions of Moose, |
216 | you must explicitly test Moose's C<VERSION>: |
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217 | |
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218 | if ( Moose->VERSION < 0.71_01 ) { |
219 | subtype 'ArrayOfInts' |
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220 | => as 'ArrayRef' |
221 | => IsArrayRef(IsInt); |
222 | } |
223 | else { |
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224 | subtype( |
225 | 'ArrayOfInts' => { |
226 | as => 'ArrayRef', |
227 | where => IsArrayRef(IsInt) |
228 | } |
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229 | ); |
230 | } |
231 | |
232 | =head1 Version 0.70 |
233 | |
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234 | We no longer pass the meta-attribute object as a final argument to |
235 | triggers. This actually changed for inlined code a while back, but the |
236 | non-inlined version and the docs were still out of date. |
237 | |
238 | If by some chance you actually used this feature, the workaround is |
239 | simple. You fetch the attribute object from out of the C<$self> |
240 | that is passed as the first argument to trigger, like so: |
241 | |
242 | has 'foo' => ( |
243 | is => 'ro', |
244 | isa => 'Any', |
245 | trigger => sub { |
246 | my ( $self, $value ) = @_; |
247 | my $attr = $self->meta->find_attribute_by_name('foo'); |
248 | |
249 | # ... |
250 | } |
251 | ); |
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252 | |
253 | =head1 Version 0.66 |
254 | |
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255 | If you created a subtype and passed a parent that Moose didn't know |
256 | about, it simply ignored the parent. Now it automatically creates the |
257 | parent as a class type. This may not be what you want, but is less |
258 | broken than before. |
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259 | |
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260 | You could declare a name with subtype such as "Foo!Bar". Moose would |
261 | accept this allowed, but if you used it in a parameterized type such |
262 | as "ArrayRef[Foo!Bar]" it wouldn't work. We now do some vetting on |
263 | names created via the sugar functions, so that they can only contain |
264 | alphanumerics, ":", and ".". |
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265 | |
266 | =head1 Version 0.65 |
267 | |
268 | Methods created via an attribute can now fulfill a C<requires> |
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269 | declaration for a role. Honestly we don't know why Stevan didn't make |
270 | this work originally, he was just insane or something. |
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271 | |
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272 | Stack traces from inlined code will now report the line and file as |
273 | being in your class, as opposed to in Moose guts. |
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274 | |
275 | =head1 Version 0.62_02 |
276 | |
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277 | When a class does not provide all of a role's required methods, the |
278 | error thrown now mentions all of the missing methods, as opposed to |
279 | just the first missing method. |
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280 | |
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281 | Moose will no longer inline a constructor for your class unless it |
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282 | inherits its constructor from Moose::Object, and will warn when it |
283 | doesn't inline. If you want to force inlining anyway, pass |
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284 | C<< replace_constructor => 1 >> to C<make_immutable>. |
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285 | |
286 | If you want to get rid of the warning, pass C<< inline_constructor => |
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287 | 0 >>. |
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288 | |
289 | =head1 Version 0.62 |
290 | |
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291 | Removed the (deprecated) C<make_immutable> keyword. |
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292 | |
293 | Removing an attribute from a class now also removes delegation |
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294 | (C<handles>) methods installed for that attribute. This is correct |
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295 | behavior, but if you were wrongly relying on it you might get bit. |
296 | |
297 | =head1 Version 0.58 |
298 | |
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299 | Roles now add methods by calling C<add_method>, not |
300 | C<alias_method>. They make sure to always provide a method object, |
301 | which will be cloned internally. This means that it is now possible to |
302 | track the source of a method provided by a role, and even follow its |
303 | history through intermediate roles. This means that methods added by |
304 | a role now show up when looking at a class's method list/map. |
305 | |
306 | Parameter and Union args are now sorted, this makes Int|Str the same |
307 | constraint as Str|Int. Also, incoming type constraint strings are |
308 | normalized to remove all whitespace differences. This is mostly for |
309 | internals and should not affect outside code. |
310 | |
311 | L<Moose::Exporter> will no longer remove a subroutine that the |
312 | exporting package re-exports. Moose re-exports the Carp::confess |
313 | function, among others. The reasoning is that we cannot know whether |
314 | you have also explicitly imported those functions for your own use, so |
315 | we err on the safe side and always keep them. |
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316 | |
317 | =head1 Version 0.56 |
318 | |
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319 | C<Moose::init_meta> should now be called as a method. |
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320 | |
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321 | New modules for extension writers, L<Moose::Exporter> and |
322 | L<Moose::Util::MetaRole>. |
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323 | |
324 | =head1 Version 0.55_01 |
325 | |
326 | Implemented metaclass traits (and wrote a recipe for it): |
327 | |
328 | use Moose -traits => 'Foo' |
329 | |
330 | This should make writing small Moose extensions a little |
331 | easier. |
332 | |
333 | =head1 Version 0.55 |
334 | |
335 | Fixed C<coerce> to accept anon types just like C<subtype> can. |
336 | So that you can do: |
337 | |
338 | coerce $some_anon_type => from 'Str' => via { ... }; |
339 | |
340 | =head1 Version 0.51 |
341 | |
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342 | Added C<BUILDARGS>, a new step in C<< Moose::Object->new() >>. |
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343 | |
344 | =head1 Version 0.49 |
345 | |
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346 | Fixed how the C<< is => (ro|rw) >> works with custom defined |
347 | C<reader>, C<writer> and C<accessor> options. See the below table for |
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348 | details: |
349 | |
350 | is => ro, writer => _foo # turns into (reader => foo, writer => _foo) |
351 | is => rw, writer => _foo # turns into (reader => foo, writer => _foo) |
352 | is => rw, accessor => _foo # turns into (accessor => _foo) |
353 | is => ro, accessor => _foo # error, accesor is rw |
354 | |
355 | =head1 Version 0.45 |
356 | |
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357 | The C<before/around/after> method modifiers now support regexp |
358 | matching of method names. NOTE: this only works for classes, it is |
359 | currently not supported in roles, but, ... patches welcome. |
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360 | |
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361 | The C<has> keyword for roles now accepts the same array ref form that |
362 | L<Moose>.pm does for classes. |
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363 | |
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364 | A trigger on a read-only attribute is no longer an error, as it's |
365 | useful to trigger off of the constructor. |
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366 | |
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367 | Subtypes of parameterizable types now are parameterizable types |
368 | themselves. |
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369 | |
370 | =head1 Version 0.44 |
371 | |
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372 | Fixed issue where C<DEMOLISHALL> was eating the value in C<$@>, and so |
373 | not working correctly. It still kind of eats them, but so does vanilla |
374 | perl. |
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375 | |
376 | =head1 Version 0.41 |
377 | |
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378 | Inherited attributes may now be extended without restriction on the |
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379 | type ('isa', 'does'). |
380 | |
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381 | The entire set of Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::* classes were |
382 | refactored in this release. If you were relying on their internals you |
383 | should test your code carefully. |
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384 | |
385 | =head1 Version 0.40 |
386 | |
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387 | Documenting the use of '+name' with attributes that come from recently |
388 | composed roles. It makes sense, people are using it, and so why not |
389 | just officially support it. |
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390 | |
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391 | The C<< Moose::Meta::Class->create >> method now supports roles. |
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392 | |
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393 | It is now possible to make anonymous enum types by passing C<enum> an |
394 | array reference instead of the C<< enum $name => @values >>. |
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395 | |
396 | =head1 Version 0.37 |
397 | |
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398 | Added the C<make_immutable> keyword as a shortcut to calling |
399 | C<make_immutable> on the meta object. This eventually got removed! |
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400 | |
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401 | Made C<< init_arg => undef >> work in Moose. This means "do not accept |
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402 | a constructor parameter for this attribute". |
403 | |
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404 | Type errors now use the provided message. Prior to this release they |
405 | didn't. |
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406 | |
407 | =head1 Version 0.34 |
408 | |
409 | Moose is now a postmodern object system :) |
410 | |
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411 | The Role system was completely refactored. It is 100% backwards |
412 | compat, but the internals were totally changed. If you relied on the |
413 | internals then you are advised to test carefully. |
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414 | |
415 | Added method exclusion and aliasing for Roles in this release. |
416 | |
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417 | Added the L<Moose::Util::TypeConstraints::OptimizedConstraints> |
418 | module. |
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419 | |
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420 | Passing a list of values to an accessor (which is only expecting one |
421 | value) used to be silently ignored, now it throws an error. |
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422 | |
423 | =head1 Version 0.26 |
424 | |
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425 | Added parameterized types and did a pretty heavy refactoring of the |
426 | type constraint system. |
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427 | |
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428 | Better framework extendability and better support for "making your own |
429 | Moose". |
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430 | |
431 | =head1 Version 0.25 or before |
432 | |
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433 | Honestly, you shouldn't be using versions of Moose that are this old, |
434 | so many bug fixes and speed improvements have been made you would be |
435 | crazy to not upgrade. |
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436 | |
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437 | Also, I am tired of going through the Changelog so I am stopping here, |
438 | if anyone would like to continue this please feel free. |
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439 | |
440 | =head1 AUTHOR |
441 | |
442 | Stevan Little E<lt>stevan@iinteractive.comE<gt> |
443 | |
444 | =head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE |
445 | |
446 | Copyright 2009 by Infinity Interactive, Inc. |
447 | |
448 | L<http://www.iinteractive.com> |
449 | |
450 | This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify |
451 | it under the same terms as Perl itself. |
452 | |
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453 | =cut |