1 Also see Moose::Manual::Delta for more details of, and workarounds
2 for, noteworthy changes.
6 * Stop the natatime method provided by the native Array trait from returning
7 an exhausted iterator when being called with a callback. (Florian Ragwitz)
9 * Make Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Class correctly reject RegexpRefs.
12 * Don't write temporary files in t/, rather use File::Temp to create
13 a temporary directory. This caused an issue for anyone running the
14 Moose tests with user that didn't have permission to write to the
17 Implemented by the Fedora perl-Moose package maintainer Chris
18 Weyl, integrated by Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason.
20 1.01 Fri, Mar 26, 2010
24 * The handles option now also accepts a role type constraint in addition to a
25 plain role name. (Florian Ragwitz)
29 * Record the Sartak/doy debt properly in Changes (perigrin)
31 1.00 Tue, Mar 25, 2010
35 * Moose::Meta::Attribute::Native::Trait::Code no longer creates reader
36 methods by default. (Florian Ragwitz)
40 * Improve various parts of the documentation and fix many typos.
41 (Dave Rolsky, Mateu Hunter, Graham Knop, Robin V, Jay Hannah, Jesse Luehrs)
45 * Paid the $10 debt to doy from 0.80 Sat, Jun 6, 2009 (Sartak)
51 * New method find_type_for in Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Union, for finding
52 which member of the union a given value validates for. (Cory Watson)
56 * DEMOLISH methods in mutable subclasses of immutable classes are now called
57 properly (Chia-liang Kao, Jesse Luehrs)
61 * Added Moose::Manual::Support that defines the support, compatiblity, and
62 release policies for Moose. (Chris Prather)
64 0.98 Wed, Feb 10, 2010
68 * An internals change in 0.97 broke role application to an instance in some
69 cases. The bug occurred when two different roles were applied to different
70 instances of the same class. (Rafael Kitover)
77 * Calling ->reinitialize on a cached anonymous class effectively uncached
78 the metaclass object, causing the metaclass to go out of scope
79 unexpectedly. This could easily happen at a distance by applying a
80 metarole to an anonymous class. (Dave Rolsky).
86 * ScalarRef is now a parameterized type. You can now specify a type
87 constraint for whatever the reference points to. (Closes RT#50857)
88 (Michael G. Schwern, Florian Ragwitz)
92 * ScalarRef now accepts references to other references. (Closes RT#50934)
99 * Moose::Meta::Attribute::Native::Trait::Code now provides execute_method as
100 a delegation option. This allows the code reference to be called as a
101 method on the object. (Florian Ragwitz)
105 * Moose::Object::does no longer checks the entire inheritance tree, since
106 Moose::Meta::Class::does_role already does this. (doy)
108 * Moose::Util::add_method_modifier (and subsequently the sugar functions
109 Moose::before, Moose::after, and Moose::around) can now accept arrayrefs,
110 with the same behavior as lists. Types other than arrayref and regexp
111 result in an error. (Dylan Hardison)
113 0.94 Mon, Jan 18, 2010
117 * Please see the changes listed for 0.93_01 and Moose::Manual::Delta.
121 * Improved support for anonymous roles by changing various APIs to take
122 Moose::Meta::Role objects as well as role names. This included
124 - Moose::Meta::Class->does_role
125 - Moose::Meta::Role->does_role
126 - Moose::Util::does_role
127 - Moose::Util::apply_all_roles
128 - Moose::Util::ensure_all_roles
129 - Moose::Util::search_class_by_role
131 Requested by Shawn Moore. Addresses RT #51143 (and then some). (Dave Rolsky)
135 * Fix handling of non-alphanumeric attributes names like '@foo'. This should
136 work as long as the accessor method names are explicitly set to valid Perl
137 method names. Reported by Doug Treder. RT #53731. (Dave Rolsky)
140 0.93_03 Tue, Jan 5, 2010
144 * Portability fixes to our XS code so we compile with 5.8.8 and Visual
145 C++. Fixes RT #53391. Reported by Taro Nishino. (rafl)
148 0.93_02 Tue, Jan 5, 2010
152 * Depend on Class::MOP 0.97_01 so we can get useful results from CPAN
153 testers. (Dave Rolsky)
156 0.93_01 Mon, Jan 4, 2010
160 See Moose::Manual::Delta for more details on backwards compatiblity issues.
162 * Role attributes are now objects of the Moose::Meta::Role::Attribute
163 class. (Dave Rolsky).
165 * There were major changes to how metaroles are applied. We now distinguish
166 between metaroles for classes vs those for roles. See the
167 Moose::Util::MetaRole docs for details. (Dave Rolsky)
169 * The old MetaRole API has been deprecated, but will continue to
170 work. However, if you are applying an attribute metaclass role, this may
171 break because of the fact that roles now have an attribute metaclass
174 * Moose::Util::MetaRole::apply_metaclass_roles is now called
175 apply_metaroles. The old name is deprecated. Dave Rolsky>
177 * The unimport subs created by Moose::Exporter now clean up re-exported
178 functions like blessed and confess, unless the caller imported them from
179 somewhere else too. See Moose::Manua::Delta for backcompat details. (rafl)
181 [ENHANCEMENTS AND BUG FIXES]
183 * Changed the Str constraint to accept magic lvalue strings like one gets from
184 substr et al, again. (sorear)
186 * Sped up the type constraint parsing regex. (Sam Vilain)
188 * The Moose::Cookbook::Extending::Recipe2 recipe was broken. Fix suggested by
191 * Added Moose::Util::TypeConstraints exports when using oose.pm to allow
192 easier testing of TypeConstraints from the command line. (perigrin)
194 * Added a with_immutable test function to Test::Moose, to run a block of tests
195 with and without certain classes being immutable. (doy)
197 * We now use Module::Install extensions explicitly to avoid confusing errors
198 if they're not installed. We use Module::Install::AuthorRequires to stop
199 test extraction and general failures if you don't have the author side
200 dependencies installed.
202 * Fixed a grammar error in Moose::Cookbook::Basics::Recipe4. rt.cpan.org
203 #51791. (Amir E. Aharoni)
206 0.93 Thu, Nov 19, 2009
208 - Calling $object->new() is no longer deprecated, and no longer
212 - The get_attribute_map method is now deprecated. (Dave Rolsky)
214 * Moose::Meta::Method::Delegation
215 - Preserve variable aliasing in @_ for delegated methods, so that
216 altering @_ affects the passed value. (doy)
218 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
219 - Allow array refs for non-anonymous form of enum and duck_type, not
220 just anonymous. The non-arrayref forms may be removed in the
222 - Changed Str constraint to not accept globs (*STDIN or *FOO). (chansen)
223 - Properly document Int being a subtype of Str. (doy)
226 - Moose::Exporter using modules can now export their functions to the
227 main package. This applied to Moose and Moose::Role, among
228 others. (nothingmuch)
230 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
231 - Don't remove attribute accessors we never installed, during
232 remove_accessors. (doy)
234 * Moose::Meta::Attribute::Native::Trait::Array
235 - Don't bypass prototype checking when calling List::Util::first, to
236 avoid a segfault when it is called with a non-code argument. (doy)
238 * Moose::Meta::Attribute::Native::Trait::Code
239 - Fix passing arguments to code execute helpers. (doy)
241 0.92 Tue, Sep 22, 2009
242 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
243 - added the match_on_type operator (Stevan)
244 - added tests and docs for this (Stevan)
247 - Metaclass compat fixing should already happen recursively, there's no
248 need to explicitly walk up the inheritance tree. (doy)
250 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
251 - Add tests for set_raw_value and get_raw_value. (nothingmuch)
253 0.91 Thu, Sep 17, 2009
255 - Don't import any functions, in order to avoid polluting our namespace
256 with things that can look like methods (blessed, try, etc)
259 * Moose::Meta::Method::Constructor
260 - The generated code needs to called Scalar::Util::blessed by its
261 fully-qualified name or else Perl can interpret the call to blessed as
262 an indirect method call. This broke Search::GIN, which in turn broke
263 KiokuDB. (nothingmuch)
265 0.90 Tue, Sep 15, 2009
266 * Moose::Meta::Attribute::Native::Trait::Counter
267 * Moose::Meta::Attribute::Native::Trait::String
268 - For these two traits, an attribute which did not explicitly provide
269 methods to handles magically ended up delegating *all* the helper
270 methods. This has been removed. You must be explicit in your handles
271 declaration for all Native Traits. (Dave Rolsky)
274 - DEMOLISHALL behavior has changed. If any DEMOLISH method dies, we make
275 sure to rethrow its error message. However, we also localize $@ before
276 this so that if all the DEMOLISH methods success, the value of $@ will
277 be preserved. (nothingmuch and Dave Rolsky)
278 - We now also localize $? during object destruction. (nothingmuch and
280 - The handling of DEMOLISH methods was broken for immutablized classes,
281 which were not receiving the value of
282 Devel::GlobalDestruction::in_global_destruction.
283 - These two fixes address some of RT #48271, reported by Zefram.
284 - This is all now documented in Moose::Manual::Construction.
285 - Calling $object->new() is now deprecated. A warning will be
289 - Added more hooks to customize how roles are applied. The role
290 summation class, used to create composite roles, can now be changed
291 and/or have meta-roles applied to it. (rafl)
292 - The get_method_list method no longer explicitly excludes the "meta"
293 method. This was a hack that has been replaced by better hacks. (Dave
296 * Moose::Meta::Method::Delegation
297 - fixed delegated methods to make sure that any modifiers attached to
298 the accessor being delegated on will be called (Stevan)
299 - added tests for this (Stevan)
302 - Moose no longer warns when a class that is being made immutable has
303 mutable ancestors. While in theory this is a good thing to warn about,
304 we found so many exceptions to this that doing this properly became
307 0.89_02 Thu, Sep 10, 2009
308 * Moose::Meta::Attribute::Native
309 - Fix Hash, which still had 'empty' instead of 'is_empty'. (hdp)
311 * Moose::Meta::Attribute::Native::Trait::Array
312 - Added a number of functions from List::Util and List::MoreUtils,
313 including reduce, shuffle, uniq, and natatime. (doy)
316 - This module will now generate an init_meta method for your exporting
317 class if you pass it options for
318 Moose::Util::MetaRole::apply_metaclass_roles or
319 apply_base_class_roles. This eliminates a lot of repetitive
320 boilerplate for typical MooseX modules. (doy).
321 - Documented the with_meta feature, which is a replacement for
322 with_caller. This feature was added by josh a while ago.
323 - The with_caller feature is now deprecated, but will not issue a
324 warning yet. (Dave Rolsky)
325 - If you try to wrap/export a subroutine which doesn't actually exist,
326 Moose::Exporter will warn you about this. (doy)
328 * Moose::Meta::Role::Application::ToRole
329 - When a role aliased a method from another role, it was only getting
330 the new (aliased) name, not the original name. This differed from what
331 happens when a class aliases a role's methods. If you _only_ want the
332 aliased name, make sure to also exclue the original name. (Dave
335 0.89_01 Wed Sep 2, 2009
336 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
337 - Added the currying syntax for delegation from AttributeHelpers to the
338 existing delegation API. (hdp)
340 * Moose::Meta::Attribute::Native
341 - We have merged the functionality of MooseX::AttributeHelpers into the
342 Moose core with some API tweaks. You can continue to use
343 MooseX::AttributeHelpers, but it will not be maintained except
344 (perhaps) for critical bug fixes in the future. See
345 Moose::Manual::Delta for details. (hdp, jhannah, rbuels, Sartak,
348 * Moose::Error::Croak
349 * Moose::Error::Confess
350 - Clarify documentation on how to use different error-throwing
351 modules. (Curtis Jewell)
354 - Correct POD for builder to point to Recipe8, not 9. (gphat)
357 - When a nonexistent sub name is passed to as_is, with_caller, or
358 with_meta, throw a warning and skip the exporting, rather than
359 installing a broken sub. (doy)
362 - Moose now warns if you call C<make_immutable> for a class with mutable
365 0.89 Thu Aug 13, 2009
366 * Moose::Manual::Attributes
367 - Clarify "is", include discussion of "bare". (Sartak)
369 * Moose::Meta::Role::Method::Conflicting
370 * Moose::Meta::Role::Application::ToClass
371 - For the first set of roles involved in a conflict, report all
372 unresolved method conflicts, not just the first method. Fixes #47210
373 reported by Ovid. (Sartak)
375 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint
376 - Add assert_valid method to use a TypeConstraint for assertion (rjbs)
379 - Make "use Moose -metaclass => 'Foo'" do alias resolution, like -traits
381 - Allow specifying role options (alias, excludes, MXRP stuff) in the
382 arrayref passed to "use Moose -traits" (doy)
385 - Add functions meta_class_alias and meta_attribute_alias for creating
386 aliases for class and attribute metaclasses and metatraits. (doy)
388 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
389 * Moose::Meta::Method::Accessor
390 - A trigger now receives the old value as a second argument, if the
391 attribute had one. (Dave Rolsky)
393 * Moose::Meta::Method::Constructor
394 - Fix a bug with $obj->new when $obj has stringify overloading.
395 Reported by Andrew Suffield [rt.cpan.org #47882] (Sartak)
396 - However, we will probably deprecate $obj->new, so please don't start
397 using it for new code!
399 * Moose::Meta::Role::Application
400 * Moose::Meta::Role::Application::RoleSummation
401 - Rename alias and excludes to -alias and -excludes (but keep the old
402 names for now, for backcompat) (doy)
404 0.88 Fri Jul 24, 2009
405 * Moose::Manual::Contributing
406 - Re-write the Moose::Manual::Contributing document to reflect
407 the new layout and methods of work for the Git repository. All
408 work now should be done in topic branches and reviewed by a
409 core committer before being applied to master. All releases
410 are done by a cabal member and merged from master to
411 stable. This plan was devised by Yuval, blame him. (perigrin)
414 - Create metaclass attributes for the different role application
417 * Moose::Util::MetaRole
418 - Allow applying roles to a meta role's role application
421 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
422 - Add weak_ref to allowed options for "has '+foo'" (mst)
424 * Moose::Meta::Method::Accessor
425 - No longer uses inline_slot_access in accessors, to support
426 non-lvalue-based meta instances. (sorear)
429 * Moose::Meta::Method::Delegation
430 - Once again allow class names as well as objects for
431 delegation. This was changed in 0.86.
434 * Moose::Meta::Class::Immutable::Trait
435 - Fixes to work with the latest Class::MOP.
437 * Moose::Meta::Method::Delegation
438 - Delegation now dies with a more useful error message if the
439 attribute's accessor returns something defined but
442 0.85 Fri, Jun 26, 2009
443 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
444 - The warning for 'no associated methods' is now split out into
445 the _check_associated_methods method, so that extensions can
446 safely call 'after install_accessors => ...'. This fixes a
447 warning from MooseX::AttributeHelpers. (hdp)
449 0.84 Fri, Jun 26, 2009
451 - has now sets definition_context for attributes defined in
454 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
455 - When adding an attribute to a metaclass, if the attribute has
456 no associated methods, it will give a deprecation
458 - Methods generated by delegation were not being added to
459 associated_methods. (hdp)
460 - Attribute accessors (reader, writer, accessor, predicate,
461 clearer) now warn if they overwrite an existing method. (doy)
462 - Attribute constructors now warn very noisily about unknown (or
463 misspelled) arguments
465 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
466 - Deprecated the totally useless Role type name, which just
467 checked if $object->can('does'). Note that this is _not_ the
468 same as a type created by calling role_type('RoleName').
470 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
471 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::DuckType
472 - Reify duck type from a regular subtype into an actual class
474 - Document this because Sartak did all my work for me
477 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
478 - Allow Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::DuckType in handles, since
479 it is just a list of methods (Sartak)
482 - The get_*_method_modifiers methods would die if the role had
483 no modifiers of the given type (Robert Buels).
485 0.83 Tue, Jun 23, 2009
487 - Fix _construct_instance not setting the special __MOP__ object
488 key in instances of anon classes. (doy)
490 0.82 Sun, Jun 21, 2009
491 * Moose::Manual::Types
492 - Mention MooseX::Types early to avoid users falling down the
493 string parsing rathole (mst)
495 * Moose::Manual::MooseX
496 - Add warnings about class-level extensions and mention considering
497 using plain objects instead
499 0.81 Sun, Jun 7, 2009
500 * Bumped our Class::MOP prereq to the latest version (0.85), since
503 0.80 Sat, Jun 6, 2009
505 - Add FAQ about the coercion change from 0.76 because it came up
506 three times today (perigrin)
507 - Win doy $10 dollars because Sartak didn't think anybody
508 would document this fast enough (perigrin)
510 * Moose::Meta::Method::Destructor
511 - Inline a DESTROY method even if there are no DEMOLISH methods
512 to prevent unnecessary introspection in
513 Moose::Object::DEMOLISHALL
516 - A role's required methods are now represented by
517 Moose::Meta::Role::Method::Required objects. Conflicts are now
518 represented by Moose::Meta::Role::Method::Conflicting
519 objects. The benefit for end-users in that unresolved
520 conflicts generate different, more instructive, errors,
521 resolving Ovid's #44895. (Sartak)
524 - Improve the error message of "extends" as suggested by Adam
525 Kennedy and confound (Sartak)
526 - Link to Moose::Manual::Roles from Moose::Role as we now have
527 excellent documentation (Adam Kennedy)
530 - Update test suite for subname change in Class::MOP
532 - Add TODO test for infinite recursion in Moose::Meta::Class
535 0.79 Wed, May 13, 2009
537 - More fixes for Win32 problems. Reported by Robert Krimen.
540 - The DEMOLISHALL method could still blow up in some cases
541 during global destruction. This method has been made more
542 resilient in the face of global destruction's random garbage
546 - If you "also" a module that isn't loaded, the error message
547 now acknowledges that (Sartak)
550 - When your ->meta method does not return a Moose::Meta::Class,
551 the error message gave the wrong output (Sartak)
553 0.78 Tue, May 12, 2009
554 * Moose::Cookbook::FAQ and Moose::Cookbook::WTF
555 - Merged these documents into what is now Moose::Manual::FAQ
558 - Moved to Moose::Manual::Unsweetened
560 * Moose::Cookbook::Basics::Recipes 9-12
561 - Renamed to be 8-11, since recipe 8 did not exist
564 - Make Moose::Exporter import strict and warnings into packages
568 - Fix DEMOLISHALL sometimes not being able to find DEMOLISH
569 methods during global destruction (doy)
572 * Moose::Meta::Role::Application::ToClass
573 - Track the Role::Application objects created during class-role
577 - Fix metaclass incompatibility errors when extending a vanilla perl
578 class which isa Moose class with a metaclass role applied (t0m)
581 - Add a role-combination hook, _role_for_combination, for the
582 benefit of MooseX::Role::Parameterized (Sartak)
585 - Some tests were failing on Win32 because they explicit checked
586 warning output for newlines. Reported by Nickolay Platonov.
588 0.77 Sat, May 2, 2009
590 - Add explicit use of Devel::GlobalDestruction and Sub::Name
594 - Pass a boolean to DEMOLISHALL and DEMOLISH indicating whether
595 or not we are currently in global destruction (doy)
596 - Add explicit use of Devel::GlobalDestruction and Sub::Name
599 * Moose::Cookbook::FAQ
600 - Reworked much of the existing content to be more useful to
601 modern Moose hackers (Sartak)
604 - Depend on Class::MOP 0.83 instead of 0.82_01.
606 0.76 Mon, April 27, 2009
607 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint
608 - Do not run coercions in coerce() if the value already passes the type
611 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Class
612 - In validation error messages, specifically say that the value is not
613 an instance of the class. This should alleviate some frustrating
614 forgot-to-load-my-type bugs. rt.cpan.org #44639 (Sartak)
616 * Moose::Meta::Role::Application::ToClass
617 - Revert the class-overrides-role warning in favor of a solution outside
618 of the Moose core (Sartak)
621 - Make Test::Output optional again, since it's only used in a few files
624 0.75_01 Thu, April 23, 2009
625 * Moose::Meta::Role::Application::ToClass
626 - Moose now warns about each class overriding methods from roles it
630 - Warnings tests have standardized on Test::Output which is now an
631 unconditionally dependency (Sartak)
634 - Changes to immutabilization to work with Class::MOP 0.82_01+.
636 0.75 Mon, April 20, 2009
639 - Move validation of not inheriting from roles from Moose::extends to
640 Moose::Meta::Class::superclasses (doy)
643 - add ensure_all_roles() function to encapsulate the common "apply this
644 role unless the object already does it" pattern (hdp)
647 - Users can now select a different metaclass with the "-metaclass"
648 option to import, for classes and roles (Sartak)
651 - Make method_metaclass an attr so that it can accept a metarole
654 0.74 Tue, April 7, 2009
656 * Moose::Meta::Method::Destructor
657 - Include stack traces in the deprecation warnings.
661 - Removed the long-deprecated _apply_all_roles method.
663 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint
664 - Removed the long-deprecated union method.
667 0.73_02 Mon, April 6, 2009
668 * More deprecations and renamings
669 - Moose::Meta::Method::Constructor
670 - initialize_body => _initialize_body (this is always called
671 when an object is constructed)
674 - The DEMOLISHALL method could throw an exception during global
675 destruction, meaning that your class's DEMOLISH methods would
676 not be properly called. Reported by t0m.
678 * Moose::Meta::Method::Destructor
679 - Destructor inlining was totally broken by the change to the
680 is_needed method in 0.72_01. Now there is a test for this
681 feature, and it works again.
684 - Bold the word 'not' in the POD for find_meta (t0m)
686 0.73_01 Sun, April 5, 2009
688 - Call user_class->meta in fewer places, with the eventual goal
689 of allowing the user to rename or exclude ->meta
690 altogether. Instead uses Class::MOP::class_of. (Sartak)
692 * Moose::Meta::Method::Accessor
693 - If an attribute had a lazy default, and that value did not
694 pass the attribute's type constraint, it did not get the
695 message from the type constraint, instead using a generic
696 message. Test provided by perigrin.
698 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
699 - Add duck_type keyword. It's sugar over making sure an object
700 can() a list of methods. This is easier than jrockway's
701 suggestion to fork all of CPAN. (perigrin)
702 - add tests and documentation (perigrin)
705 - Document the fact that init_meta() returns the target class's
706 metaclass object. (hdp)
708 * Moose::Cookbook::Extending::Recipe1
709 * Moose::Cookbook::Extending::Recipe2
710 * Moose::Cookbook::Extending::Recipe3
711 * Moose::Cookbook::Extending::Recipe4
712 - Make init_meta() examples explicitly return the metaclass and
713 point out this fact. (hdp)
715 * Moose::Cookbook::Basics::Recipe12
716 - A new recipe, creating a custom meta-method class.
718 * Moose::Cookbook::Meta::Recipe6
719 - A new recipe, creating a custom meta-method class.
722 * Moose::Meta::Method::Constructor
723 - Attribute triggers no longer receive the meta-attribute object
724 as an argument in any circumstance. Previously, triggers
725 called during instance construction were passed the
726 meta-attribute, but triggers called by normal accessors were
727 not. Fixes RT#44429, reported by Mark Swayne. (hdp)
729 * Moose::Manual::Attributes
730 - Remove references to triggers receving the meta-attribute object as an
733 * Moose::Cookbook::FAQ
734 - Remove recommendation for deprecated Moose::Policy and
735 Moose::Policy::FollowPBP; recommend MooseX::FollowPBP
738 * Many methods have been renamed with a leading underscore, and a
739 few have been deprecated entirely. The methods with a leading
740 underscore are consider "internals only". People writing
741 subclasses or extensions to Moose should feel free to override
742 them, but they are not for "public" use.
745 - check_metaclass_compatibility => _check_metaclass_compatibility
747 - Moose::Meta::Method::Accessor
748 - initialize_body => _initialize_body (this is always called
749 when an object is constructed)
750 - /(generate_.*_method(?:_inline)?)/ => '_' . $1
752 - Moose::Meta::Method::Constructor
753 - initialize_body => _initialize_body (this is always called
754 when an object is constructed)
755 - /(generate_constructor_method(?:_inline)?)/ => '_' . $1
756 - attributes => _attributes (now inherited from parent)
757 - meta_instance => _meta_instance (now inherited from parent)
760 - alias_method is deprecated. Use add_method
762 0.73 Fri, March 29, 2009
763 * No changes from 0.72_01.
765 0.72_01 Thu, March 26, 2009
767 - Almost every module has complete API documentation. A few
768 methods (and even whole classes) have been intentionally
769 excluded pending some rethinking of their APIs.
771 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
772 - Calling subtype with a name as the only argument is now an
773 exception. If you want an anonymous subtype do:
775 my $subtype = subtype as 'Foo';
777 * Moose::Cookbook::Meta::Recipe7
778 - A new recipe, creating a custom meta-instance class.
780 * Moose::Cookbook::Basics::Recipe5
781 - Fix various typos and mistakes. Includes a patch from Radu
784 * Moose::Cookbook::Basics::Recipe9
785 - Link to this recipe from Moose.pm's builder blurb
788 - When wrapping a function with a prototype, Moose::Exporter now
789 makes sure the wrapped function still has the same
790 prototype. (Daisuke Maki)
792 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
793 - Allow a subclass to set lazy_build for an inherited
797 - Explicitly depend on Data::OptList. We already had this dependency
798 via Sub::Exporter, but since we're using it directly we're
799 better off with it listed. (Sartak)
801 * Moose::Meta::Method::Constructor
802 - Make it easier to subclass the inlining behaviour. (Ash
805 * Moose::Manual::Delta
806 - Details significant changes in the history of Moose, along
807 with recommended workarounds.
809 * Moose::Manual::Contributing
810 - Contributor's guide to Moose.
812 * Moose::Meta::Method::Constructor
813 - The long-deprecated intialize_body method has been removed
814 (yes, spelled like that).
816 * Moose::Meta::Method::Destructor
817 - This is_needed method is now always a class method.
820 - Changes to the internals of how make_immutable works to match
821 changes in latest Class::MOP.
823 0.72 Mon, February 23, 2009
825 * Moose::Meta::Method::Constructor
826 - A mutable class accepted Foo->new(undef) without complaint,
827 while an immutable class would blow up with an unhelpful
828 error. Now, in both cases we throw a helpful error
829 instead. Reported by doy.
831 0.71_01 Sun, February 22, 2009
833 - Hopefully fixed some POD errors in a few recipes that caused
834 them to display weird on search.cpan.org.
836 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
837 - Calling type or subtype without the sugar helpers (as, where,
838 message) is now deprecated.
839 - The subtype function tried hard to guess what you meant, but
840 often got it wrong. For example:
842 my $subtype = subtype as 'ArrayRef[Object]';
844 This caused an error in the past, but now works as you'd
848 - Make sure Moose.pm is loaded before calling
849 Moose->throw_error. This wasn't normally an issue, but could
850 bite you in weird cases.
852 0.71 Thu, February 19, 2009
853 * Moose::Cookbook::Basics::Recipe11
854 - A new recipe which demonstrates the use of BUILDARGS and
857 * Moose::Cookbook::Roles::Recipe3
858 - A new recipe, applying a role to an object instance. (Dave
862 - Allow overriding specific keywords from "also" packages. (doy)
865 - Replace hardcoded cookbook tests with Test::Inline to ensure
866 the tests match the actual code in the recipes. (Dave Rolsky)
869 - Working on the above turned up a number of little bugs in the
870 recipe code. (Dave Rolsky)
872 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints::Optimized
873 - Just use Class::MOP for the optimized ClassName check. (Dave
876 0.70 Sat, February 14, 2009
877 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
878 - Added the RoleName type (stevan)
879 - added tests for this (stevan)
881 * Moose::Cookbook::Basics::Recipe3
882 - Updated the before qw[left right] sub to be a little more
883 defensive about what it accepts (stevan)
884 - added more tests to t/000_recipies/basics/003_binary_tree.t
888 - We now always call DEMOLISHALL, even if a class does not
889 define DEMOLISH. This makes sure that method modifiers on
890 DEMOLISHALL work as expected. (doy)
891 - added tests for this (EvanCarroll)
893 * Moose::Util::MetaRole
894 - Accept roles for the wrapped_method_metaclass (rafl)
895 - added tests for this (rafl)
897 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
898 - We no longer pass the meta-attribute object as a final
899 argument to triggers. This actually changed for inlined code a
900 while back, but the non-inlined version and the docs were
904 - Some tests tried to use Test::Warn 0.10, which had bugs. Now
905 they require 0.11. (Dave Rolsky)
908 - Lots of small changes to the manual, cookbook, and
909 elsewhere. These were based on feedback from various
910 users, too many to list here. (Dave Rolsky)
912 0.69 Thu, February 12, 2009
914 - Make some keyword errors use throw_error instead of croak
915 since Moose::Exporter wraps keywords now (Sartak)
918 - Revised every recipe for style and clarity. Also moved some
919 documentation out of cookbook recipes and into Moose::Manual
920 pages. This work was funded as part of the Moose docs grant
921 from TPF. (Dave Rolsky)
923 * Moose::Meta::Method::Delegation
924 - If the attribute doing the delegation was not populated, the
925 error message did not specify the attribute name
928 0.68 Wed, February 4, 2009
930 - Many spelling, typo, and formatting fixes by daxim.
932 * Moose::Manual::Attributes
933 - The NAME section in the POD used "Attribute" so search.cpan
934 didn't resolve links from other documents properly.
936 * Moose::Meta::Method::Overriden
937 - Now properly spelled as Overridden. Thanks to daxim for
940 0.67 Tue, February 3, 2009
942 - Lots of little typo fixes and a few clarifications. Several
943 pages didn't have proper titles, and so weren't actually
944 visible on search.cpan.org. Thanks to hanekomu for a variety
945 of fixes and formatting improvements.
947 0.66 Tue, February 3, 2009
949 - This is a brand new, extensive manual for Moose. This aims to
950 provide a complete introduction to all of Moose's
951 features. This work was funded as part of the Moose docs grant
952 from TPF. (Dave Rolsky)
954 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
955 - Added a delegation_metaclass method to replace a hard-coded
956 use of Moose::Meta::Method::Delegation. (Dave Rolsky)
958 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
959 - If you created a subtype and passed a parent that Moose didn't
960 know about, it simply ignored the parent. Now it automatically
961 creates the parent as a class type. This may not be what you
962 want, but is less broken than before. (Dave Rolsky)
964 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
965 - This module tried throw errors by calling Moose->throw_error,
966 but it did not ensure that Moose was loaded first. This could
967 cause very unhelpful errors when it tried to throw an error
968 before Moose was loaded. (Dave Rolsky)
970 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
971 - You could declare a name with subtype such as "Foo!Bar" that
972 would be allowed, but if you used it in a parameterized type
973 such as "ArrayRef[Foo!Bar]" it wouldn't work. We now do some
974 vetting on names created via the sugar functions, so that they
975 can only contain alphanumerics, ":", and ".". (Dave Rolsky)
977 0.65 Thu, January 22, 2008
978 * Moose and Moose::Meta::Method::Overridden
979 - If an overridden method called super(), and then the
980 superclass's method (not overridden) _also_ called super(),
981 Moose went into an endless recursion loop. Test provided by
982 Chris Prather. (Dave Rolsky)
984 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint
985 - All methods are now documented. (gphat)
987 * t/100_bugs/011_DEMOLISH_eats_exceptions.t
988 - Fixed some bogus failures that occurred because we tried to
989 validate filesystem paths in a very ad-hoc and
990 not-quite-correct way. (Dave Rolsky)
992 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
993 - Added maybe_type to exports. See docs for details. (rjbs)
996 - Added Moose::Util::TypeConstraints to the SEE ALSO
1000 - Methods created via an attribute can now fulfill a "requires"
1001 declaration for a role. (nothingmuch)
1003 * Moose::Meta::Method::*
1004 - Stack traces from inlined code will now report its line and
1005 file as being in your class, as opposed to in Moose
1006 guts. (nothingmuch).
1008 0.64 Wed, December 31, 2008
1009 * Moose::Meta::Method::Accessor
1010 - Always inline predicate and clearer methods (Sartak)
1012 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
1013 - Support for parameterized traits (Sartak)
1014 - verify_against_type_constraint method to avoid duplication
1015 and enhance extensibility (Sartak)
1017 * Moose::Meta::Class
1018 - Tests (but no support yet) for parameterized traits (Sartak)
1021 - Require Class::MOP 0.75+, which has the side effect of making
1022 sure we work on Win32. (Dave Rolsky)
1024 0.63 Mon, December 8, 2008
1025 * Moose::Unsweetened
1026 - Some small grammar tweaks and bug fixes in non-Moose example
1029 0.62_02 Fri, December 5, 2008
1030 * Moose::Meta::Role::Application::ToClass
1031 - When a class does not provide all of a role's required
1032 methods, the error thrown now mentions all of the missing
1033 methods, as opposed to just the first one found. Requested by
1034 Curtis Poe (RT #41119). (Dave Rolsky)
1036 * Moose::Meta::Method::Constructor
1037 - Moose will no longer inline a constructor for your class
1038 unless it inherits its constructor from Moose::Object, and
1039 will warn when it doesn't inline. If you want to force
1040 inlining anyway, pass "replace_constructor => 1" to
1041 make_immutable. Addresses RT #40968, reported by Jon
1042 Swartz. (Dave Rolsky)
1043 - The quoting of default values could be broken if the default
1044 contained a single quote ('). Now we use quotemeta to escape
1045 anything potentially dangerous in the defaults. (Dave Rolsky)
1047 0.62_01 Wed, December 3, 2008
1049 - use the method->execute API for BUILDALL
1050 and DEMOLISHALL (Sartak)
1052 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
1053 - We now make all the type constraint meta classes immutable
1054 before creating the default types provided by Moose. This
1055 should make loading Moose a little faster. (Dave Rolsky)
1057 0.62 Wed November 26, 2008
1058 * Moose::Meta::Role::Application::ToClass
1059 Moose::Meta::Role::Application::ToRole
1060 - fixed issues where excluding and aliasing the
1061 same methods for a single role did not work
1062 right (worked just fine with multiple
1064 - added test for this (stevan)
1066 * Moose::Meta::Role::Application::RoleSummation
1067 - fixed the error message when trying to compose
1068 a role with a role it excludes (Sartak)
1071 - Catch another case where recursion caused the value
1072 of $CALLER to be stamped on (t0m)
1073 - added test for this (t0m)
1076 - Remove the make_immutable keyword, which has been
1077 deprecated since April. It breaks metaclasses that
1078 use Moose without no Moose (Sartak)
1080 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
1081 - Removing an attribute from a class now also removes delegation
1082 (handles) methods installed for that attribute (t0m)
1083 - added test for this (t0m)
1085 * Moose::Meta::Method::Constructor
1086 - An attribute with a default that looked like a number (but was
1087 really a string) would accidentally be treated as a number
1088 when the constructor was made immutable (perigrin)
1089 - added test for this (perigrin)
1092 - create method for constructing a role
1093 dynamically (Sartak)
1094 - added test for this (Sartak)
1095 - anonymous roles! (Sartak)
1096 - added test for this (Sartak)
1099 - more consistent error messages (Sartak)
1101 * Moose::Cookbook::Roles::Recipe1
1102 - attempt to explain why a role that just requires
1103 methods is useful (Sartak)
1105 0.61 Fri November 7, 2008
1106 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
1107 - When passing a role to handles, it will be loaded if necessary
1110 * Moose::Meta::Class
1111 - Method objects returned by get_method (and other methods)
1112 Could end up being returned without an associated_metaclass
1113 attribute. Removing get_method_map, which is provided by
1114 Class::MOP::Class, fixed this. The Moose version did nothing
1115 different from its parent except introduce a bug. (Dave Rolsky)
1116 - added tests for this (jdv79)
1119 - Added a $VERSION to all .pm files which didn't have one. Fixes
1120 RT #40049, reported by Adam Kennedy. (Dave Rolsky)
1122 * Moose::Cookbook::Basics::Recipe4
1123 * Moose::Cookbook::Basics::Recipe6
1124 - These files had spaces on the first line of the SYNOPSIS, as
1125 opposed to a totally empty line. According to RT #40432, this
1126 confuses POD parsers. (Dave Rolsky)
1128 0.60 Fri October 24, 2008
1130 - Passing "-traits" when loading Moose caused the Moose.pm
1131 exports to be broken. Reported by t0m. (Dave Rolsky)
1132 - Tests for this bug. (t0m)
1135 - Change resolve_metaclass alias to use the new
1136 load_first_existing_class function. This makes it a lot
1137 simpler, and also around 5 times faster. (t0m)
1138 - Add caching to resolve_metaclass_alias, which gives an order
1139 of magnitude speedup to things which repeatedly call the
1140 Moose::Meta::Attribute->does method, notably MooseX::Storage
1143 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraint
1144 - Put back the changes for parameterized constraints that
1145 shouldn't have been removed in 0.59. We still cannot parse
1146 them, but MooseX modules can create them in some other
1147 way. See the 0.58 changes for more details. (jnapiorkowski)
1148 - Changed the way subtypes are created so that the job is
1149 delegated to a type constraint parent. This clears up some
1150 hardcoded checking and should allow correct subtypes of
1151 Moose::Meta::Type::Constraint. Don't rely on this new API too
1152 much (create_child_type) because it may go away in the
1153 future. (jnapiorkowski)
1155 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Union
1156 - Type constraint names are sorted as strings, not numbers.
1159 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Parameterizable
1160 - New parameterize method. This can be used as a factory method
1161 to make a new type constraint with a given parameterized
1162 type. (jnapiorkowski)
1163 - added tests (jnapiorkowski)
1165 0.59 Tue October 14, 2008
1167 - Add abridged documentation for builder/default/initializer/
1168 predicate, and link to more details sections in
1169 Class::MOP::Attribute. (t0m)
1171 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
1172 - removed prototypes from all but the &-based stuff (mst)
1174 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
1175 - Creating a anonymous subtype with both a constraint and a
1176 message failed with a very unhelpful error, but should just
1177 work. Reported by t0m. (Dave Rolsky)
1180 - Some tests that used Test::Warn if it was available failed
1181 with older versions of Test::Warn. Reported by Fayland. (Dave
1183 - Test firing behavior of triggers in relation to builder/default/
1185 - Test behavior of equals/is_a_type_of/is_a_subtype_of for all
1186 kinds of supported type. (t0m)
1188 * Moose::Meta::Class
1189 - In create(), do not pass "roles" option to the superclass
1190 - added related test that creates an anon metaclass with
1191 a required attribute
1193 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Class
1194 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Role
1195 - Unify behavior of equals/is_a_type_of/is_a_subtype_of with
1196 other types (as per change in 0.55_02). (t0m)
1198 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Registry
1199 - Fix warning when dealing with unknown type names (t0m)
1201 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
1202 - Reverted changes from 0.58 related to handle parameterized
1203 types. This caused random failures on BSD and Win32 systems,
1204 apparently related to the regex engine. This means that Moose
1205 can no longer parse structured type constraints like
1206 ArrayRef[Int,Int] or HashRef[name=>Str]. This will be
1207 supported in a slightly different way via MooseX::Types some
1208 time in the future. (Dave Rolsky)
1210 0.58 Sat September 20, 2008
1211 !! This release has an incompatible change regarding !!
1212 !! how roles add methods to a class !!
1214 * Roles and role application
1215 ! Roles now add methods by calling add_method, not
1216 alias_method. They make sure to always provide a method
1217 object, which will be cloned internally. This means that it is
1218 now possible to track the source of a method provided by a
1219 role, and even follow its history through intermediate roles.
1221 This means that methods added by a role now show up when
1222 looking at a class's method list/map. (Dave Rolsky)
1225 - From this release on, we'll try to maintain a list of
1226 conflicting modules, and warn you if you have one
1227 installed. For example, this release conflicts with ...
1228 - MooseX::Singleton <= 0.11
1229 - MooseX::Params::Validate <= 0.05
1232 In general, we try to not break backwards compatibility for
1233 most Moose users, but MooseX modules and other code which
1234 extends Moose's metaclasses is often affected by very small
1235 changes in the Moose internals.
1237 * Moose::Meta::Method::Delegation
1238 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
1239 - Delegation methods now have their own method class. (Dave
1242 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Parameterizable
1243 - Added a new method 'parameterize' which is basically a factory
1244 for the containing constraint. This makes it easier to create
1245 new types of parameterized constraints. (jnapiorkowski)
1247 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Union
1248 - Changed the way Union types canonicalize their names to follow
1249 the normalized TC naming rules, which means we strip all
1250 whitespace. (jnapiorkowski)
1252 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
1253 - Parameter and Union args are now sorted, this makes Int|Str
1254 the same constraint as Str|Int. (jnapiorkowski)
1255 - Changes to the way Union types are parsed to more correctly
1256 stringify their names. (jnapiorkowski)
1257 - When creating a parameterized type, we now use the new
1258 parameterize method. (jnapiorkowski)
1259 - Incoming type constraint strings are now normalized to remove
1260 all whitespace differences. (jnapiorkowski)
1261 - Changed the way we parse type constraint strings so that we now
1262 match TC[Int,Int,...] and TC[name=>Str] as parameterized type
1263 constraints. This lays the foundation for more flexible type
1264 constraint implementations.
1266 * Tests and docs for all the above. (jnapiorkowski)
1270 - Moose::Exporter will no longer remove a subroutine that the
1271 exporting package re-exports. Moose re-exports the
1272 Carp::confess function, among others. The reasoning is that we
1273 cannot know whether you have also explicitly imported those
1274 functions for your own use, so we err on the safe side and
1275 always keep them. (Dave Rolsky)
1276 - added tests for this (rafl)
1278 * Moose::Meta::Class
1279 - Changes to how we fix metaclass compatibility that are much
1280 too complicated to go into. The summary is that Moose is much
1281 less likely to complain about metaclass incompatibility
1282 now. In particular, if two metaclasses differ because
1283 Moose::Util::MetaRole was used on the two corresponding
1284 classes, then the difference in roles is reconciled for the
1285 subclass's metaclass. (Dave Rolsky)
1286 - Squashed an warning in _process_attribute (thepler)
1289 - throw exceptions (sooner) for invalid attribute names (thepler)
1290 - added tests for this (thepler)
1292 * Moose::Util::MetaRole
1293 - If you explicitly set a constructor or destructor class for a
1294 metaclass object, and then applied roles to the metaclass,
1295 that explicitly set class would be lost and replaced with the
1298 * Moose::Meta::Class
1299 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
1300 * Moose::Meta::Method
1303 * Moose::Error::Default
1304 * Moose::Error::Croak
1305 * Moose::Error::Confess
1306 - All instances of confess() changed to use overridable
1307 C<throw_error> method. This method ultimately calls a class
1308 constructor, and you can change the class being called. In
1309 addition, errors now pass more information than just a string.
1310 The default C<error_class> behaves like C<Carp::confess>, so
1311 the behavior is not visibly different for end users.
1313 0.57 Wed September 3, 2008
1315 - A new bit of doc intended to introduce folks familiar with
1316 "standard" Perl 5 OO to Moose concepts. (Dave Rolsky)
1318 * Moose::Unsweetened
1319 - Shows examples of two classes, each done first with and then
1320 without Moose. This makes a nice parallel to
1321 Moose::Intro. (Dave Rolsky)
1323 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
1324 - Fixed a bug in find_or_parse_type_constraint so that it
1325 accepts a Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint object as the parent
1326 type, not just a name (jnapiorkowski)
1327 - added tests (jnapiorkowski)
1330 - If Sub::Name was not present, unimporting failed to actually
1331 remove some sugar subs, causing test failures (Dave Rolsky)
1333 0.56 Mon September 1, 2008
1334 For those not following the series of dev releases, there are
1335 several major changes in this release of Moose.
1336 ! Moose::init_meta should now be called as a method. See the
1339 - Major performance improvements by nothingmuch.
1341 - New modules for extension writers, Moose::Exporter and
1342 Moose::Util::MetaRole by Dave Rolsky.
1344 - Lots of doc improvements and additions, especially in the
1347 - Various bug fixes.
1349 * Removed all references to the experimental-but-no-longer-needed
1350 Moose::Meta::Role::Application::ToMetaclassInstance.
1352 * Require Class::MOP 0.65.
1354 0.55_04 Sat August 30, 2008
1355 * Moose::Util::MetaRole
1356 * Moose::Cookbook::Extending::Recipe2
1357 - This simplifies the application of roles to any meta class, as
1358 well as the base object class. Reimplemented metaclass traits
1359 using this module. (Dave Rolsky)
1361 * Moose::Cookbook::Extending::Recipe1
1362 - This a new recipe, an overview of various ways to write Moose
1363 extensions (Dave Rolsky)
1365 * Moose::Cookbook::Extending::Recipe3
1366 * Moose::Cookbook::Extending::Recipe4
1367 - These used to be Extending::Recipe1 and Extending::Recipe2,
1370 0.55_03 Fri August 29, 2008
1371 * No changes from 0.55_02 except increasing the Class::MOP
1372 dependency to 0.64_07.
1374 0.55_02 Fri August 29, 2008
1375 * Makefile.PL and Moose.pm
1376 - explicitly require Perl 5.8.0+ (Dave Rolsky)
1378 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
1379 - Fix warnings from find_type_constraint if the type is not
1382 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint
1383 - Predicate methods (equals/is_a_type_of/is_subtype_of) now
1384 return false if the type you specify cannot be found in the
1385 type registry, rather than throwing an unhelpful and
1386 coincidental exception. (t0m).
1387 - added docs & test for this (t0m)
1389 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Registry
1390 - add_type_constraint now throws an exception if a parameter is
1392 - added docs & test for this (t0m)
1394 * Moose::Cookbook::FAQ
1395 - Added a faq entry on the difference between "role" and "trait"
1399 - Fixed a bug that caused role composition to not see a required
1400 method when that method was provided by another role being
1401 composed at the same time. (Dave Rolsky)
1402 - test and bug finding (tokuhirom)
1404 0.55_01 Wed August 20, 2008
1406 !! Calling Moose::init_meta as a function is now !!
1407 !! deprecated. Please see the Moose.pm docs for details. !!
1409 * Moose::Meta::Method::Constructor
1410 - Fix inlined constructor so that values produced by default
1411 or builder methods are coerced as required. (t0m)
1412 - added test for this (t0m)
1414 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
1415 - A lazy attribute with a default or builder did not attempt to
1416 coerce the default value. The immutable code _did_
1418 - added test for this (t0m)
1421 - This is a new helper module for writing "Moose-alike"
1422 modules. This should make the lives of MooseX module authors
1423 much easier. (Dave Rolsky)
1426 * Moose::Cookbook::Meta::Recipe5
1427 - Implemented metaclass traits (and wrote a recipe for it):
1429 use Moose -traits => 'Foo'
1431 This should make writing small Moose extensions a little
1432 easier (Dave Rolsky)
1434 * Moose::Cookbook::Basics::Recipe1
1435 - Removed any examples of direct hashref access, and applied an
1436 editorial axe to reduce verbosity. (Dave Rolsky)
1438 * Moose::Cookbook::Basics::Recipe1
1439 - Also applied an editorial axe here. (Dave Rolsky)
1442 * Moose::Cookbook::Extending::Recipe1
1443 * Moose::Cookbook::Extending::Recipe2
1444 - Rewrote extending and embedding moose documentation and
1445 recipes to use Moose::Exporter (Dave Rolsky)
1449 - These two modules now warn when you load them from the main
1450 package "main" package, because we will not export sugar to
1451 main. Previously it just did nothing. (Dave Rolsky)
1454 - Now provide an init_meta method just like Moose.pm, and you
1455 can call this to provide an alternate role metaclass. (Dave
1456 Rolsky and nothingmuch)
1457 - get_method_map now respects the package cache flag (nothingmuch)
1460 - Two new methods - add_method and wrap_method_body
1464 - Optimizations including allowing constructors to accept hash
1465 refs, making many more classes immutable, and making
1466 constructors immutable. (nothingmuch)
1468 0.55 Sun August 3, 2008
1469 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
1470 - breaking down the way 'handles' methods are
1471 created so that the process can be more easily
1472 overridden by subclasses (stevan)
1474 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint
1475 - fixing what is passed into a ->message with
1476 the type constraints (RT #37569)
1477 - added tests for this (Charles Alderman)
1479 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
1480 - fix coerce to accept anon types like subtype can (mst)
1483 - reorganized the recipes into sections - Basics, Roles, Meta,
1484 Extending - and wrote abstracts for each section (Dave Rolsky)
1486 * Moose::Cookbook::Basics::Recipe10
1487 - A new recipe that demonstrates operator overloading
1488 in combination with Moose. (bluefeet)
1490 * Moose::Cookbook::Meta::Recipe1
1491 - an introduction to what meta is and why you'd want to make
1492 your own metaclass extensions (Dave Rolsky)
1494 * Moose::Cookbook::Meta::Recipe4
1495 - a very simple metaclass example (Dave Rolsky)
1497 * Moose::Cookbook::Extending::Recipe1
1498 - how to write a Moose-alike module to use your own object base
1501 * Moose::Cookbook::Extending::Recipe2
1502 - how to write modules with an API just like C<Moose.pm> (Dave
1506 - Tons of fixes, both syntactical and grammatical (Dave
1507 Rolsky, Paul Fenwick)
1509 0.54 Thurs. July 3, 2008
1510 ... this is not my day today ...
1512 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
1513 - fixed legal_options_for_inheritance such that
1514 clone_and_inherit options still works for
1515 Class::MOP::Attribute objects and therefore
1516 does not break MooseX::AttributeHelpers
1519 0.53 Thurs. July 3, 2008
1520 * Whoops, I guess I should run 'make manifest' before
1521 actually releasing the module. No actual changes
1522 in this release, except the fact that it includes
1523 the changes that I didn't include in the last
1526 0.52 Thurs. July 3, 2008
1528 - added "FEATURE REQUESTS" section to the Moose docs
1529 to properly direct people (stevan) (RT #34333)
1530 - making 'extends' croak if it is passed a Role since
1531 this is not ever something you want to do
1532 (fixed by stevan, found by obra)
1533 - added tests for this (stevan)
1536 - adding support for DOES (as in UNIVERSAL::DOES)
1538 - added test for this
1540 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
1541 - added legal_options_for_inheritance (wreis)
1542 - added tests for this (wreis)
1544 * Moose::Cookbook::Snacks::*
1545 - removed some of the unfinished snacks that should
1546 not have been released yet. Added some more examples
1547 to the 'Keywords' snack. (stevan)
1549 * Moose::Cookbook::Style
1550 - added general Moose "style guide" of sorts to the
1551 cookbook (nothingmuch) (RT #34335)
1554 - added more BUILDARGS tests (stevan)
1556 0.51 Thurs. Jun 26, 2008
1558 - add unimport so "no Moose::Role" actually does
1561 * Moose::Meta::Role::Application::ToRole
1562 - when RoleA did RoleB, and RoleA aliased a method from RoleB in
1563 order to provide its own implementation, that method still got
1564 added to the list of required methods for consumers of
1565 RoleB. Now an aliased method is only added to the list of
1566 required methods if the role doing the aliasing does not
1567 provide its own implementation. See Recipe 11 for an example
1568 of all this. (Dave Rolsky)
1569 - added tests for this
1571 * Moose::Meta::Method::Constructor
1572 - when a single argument that wasn't a hashref was provided to
1573 an immutabilized constructor, the error message was very
1574 unhelpful, as opposed to the non-immutable error. Reported by
1576 - added test for this (Dave Rolsky)
1578 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
1579 - added support for meta_attr->does("ShortAlias") (sartak)
1580 - added tests for this (sartak)
1581 - moved the bulk of the `handles` handling to the new
1582 install_delegation method (Stevan)
1585 - Added BUILDARGS, a new step in new()
1587 * Moose::Meta::Role::Application::RoleSummation
1588 - fix typos no one ever sees (sartak)
1590 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
1591 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint
1592 * Moose::Meta::TypeCoercion
1593 - Attempt to work around the ??{ } vs. threads issue
1595 - Some null_constraint optimizations
1597 0.50 Thurs. Jun 11, 2008
1598 - Fixed a version number issue by bumping all modules
1601 0.49 Thurs. Jun 11, 2008
1602 !! This version now approx. 20-25% !!
1603 !! faster with new Class::MOP 0.59 !!
1605 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
1606 - fixed how the is => (ro|rw) works with
1607 custom defined reader, writer and accessor
1609 - added docs for this (TODO).
1610 - added tests for this (Thanks to Penfold)
1611 - added the custom attribute alias for regular
1612 Moose attributes which is "Moose"
1613 - fix builder and default both being used
1618 Moose::Meta::Attribute
1620 Moose::Meta::Role::Composite
1621 Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
1622 - switched usage of reftype to ref because
1626 - changing add_package_symbol to use the new
1630 - fixed how DEMOLISHALL is called so that it
1631 can be overrided in subclasses (thanks to Sartak)
1632 - added test for this (thanks to Sartak)
1634 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
1635 - move the ClassName type check code to
1636 Class::MOP::is_class_loaded (thanks to Sartak)
1638 * Moose::Cookbook::Recipe11
1639 - add tests for this (thanks to tokuhirom)
1641 0.48 Thurs. May 29, 2008
1642 (early morning release engineering)--
1644 - fixing the version in Moose::Meta::Method::Destructor
1645 which was causing the indexer to choke
1647 0.47 Thurs. May 29, 2008
1648 (late night release engineering)--
1650 - fixing the version is META.yml, no functional
1651 changes in this release
1653 0.46 Wed. May 28, 2008
1654 !! This version now approx. 20-25% !!
1655 !! faster with new Class::MOP 0.57 !!
1657 * Moose::Meta::Class
1658 - some optimizations of the &initialize method
1659 since it is called so often by &meta
1661 * Moose::Meta::Class
1663 - now use the get_all_package_symbols from the
1664 updated Class::MOP, test suite is now 10 seconds
1667 * Moose::Meta::Method::Destructor
1668 - is_needed can now also be called as a class
1669 method for immutablization to check if the
1670 destructor object even needs to be created
1673 * Moose::Meta::Method::Destructor
1674 Moose::Meta::Method::Constructor
1675 - added more descriptive error message to help
1676 keep people from wasting time tracking an error
1677 that is easily fixed by upgrading.
1679 0.45 Saturday, May 24, 2008
1681 - Because of work in Class::MOP 0.57, all
1682 XS based functionality is now optional
1683 and a Pure Perl version is supplied
1684 - the CLASS_MOP_NO_XS environment variable
1685 can now be used to force non-XS versions
1687 - several of the packages have been tweaked
1688 to take care of this, mostly we added
1689 support for the package_name and name
1690 variables in all the Method metaclasses
1691 - before/around/after method modifiers now
1692 support regexp matching of names
1693 (thanks to Takatoshi Kitano)
1694 - tests added for this
1695 - NOTE: this only works for classes, it
1696 is currently not supported in roles,
1697 but, ... patches welcome
1698 - All usage of Carp::confess have been replaced
1699 by Carp::croak in the "keyword" functions since
1700 the stack trace is usually not helpful
1703 - All usage of Carp::confess have been replaced
1704 by Carp::croak in the "keyword" functions since
1705 the stack trace is usually not helpful
1706 - The 'has' keyword for roles now accepts the
1707 same array ref form that Moose.pm does
1708 (has [qw/foo bar/] => (is => 'rw', ...))
1709 - added test for this
1711 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
1712 - trigger on a ro-attribute is no longer an
1713 error, as it's useful to trigger off of the
1716 * Moose::Meta::Class
1717 - added same 'add_package_symbol' fix as in
1721 - does_role now handles non-Moose classes
1723 - added tests for this
1724 - added the 'add_method_modifier' function
1725 (thanks to Takatoshi Kitano)
1727 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
1728 - subtypes of parameterizable types now are
1729 themselves parameterizable types
1731 * Moose::Meta::Method::Constructor
1732 - fixed bug where trigger was not being
1733 called by the inlined immutable
1735 - added test for this (thanks to Caelum)
1737 * Moose::Meta::Role::Application::ToInstance
1738 - now uses the metaclass of the instance
1739 (if possible) to create the anon-class
1740 (thanks Jonathan Rockway)
1742 * Moose::Cookbook::Recipe22
1743 - added the meta-attribute trait recipe
1747 - fixed hash-ordering test bug that was
1748 causing occasional cpantester failures
1749 - renamed the t/000_recipe/*.t tests to be
1750 more descriptive (thanks to Sartak)
1752 0.44 Sat. May 10, 2008
1754 - made make_immutable warning cluck to
1755 show where the error is (thanks mst)
1758 - BUILDALL and DEMOLISHALL now call
1759 ->body when looping through the
1760 methods, to avoid the overloaded
1762 - fixed issue where DEMOLISHALL was
1763 eating the $@ values, and so not
1764 working correctly, it still kind of
1765 eats them, but so does vanilla perl
1766 - added tests for this
1768 * Moose::Cookbook::Recipe7
1769 - added new recipe for immutable
1770 functionality (thanks Dave Rolsky)
1772 * Moose::Cookbook::Recipe9
1773 - added new recipe for builder and
1774 lazy_build (thanks Dave Rolsky)
1776 * Moose::Cookbook::Recipe11
1777 - added new recipe for method aliasing
1778 and exclusion with Roles (thanks Dave Rolsky)
1781 - fixed Win32 test failure (thanks spicyjack)
1783 ~ removed Build.PL and Module::Build compat
1784 since Module::Install has done that.
1786 0.43 Wed. April, 30, 2008
1788 drink more coffee before
1789 doing release engineering
1791 - whoops, forgot to do the smolder tests,
1792 and we broke some of the custom meta-attr
1793 modules. This fixes that.
1795 0.42 Mon. April 28, 2008
1796 - some bad tests slipped by, nothing else
1797 changed in this release (cpantesters++)
1799 - upped the Class::MOP dependency to 0.55
1800 since we have tests which need the C3
1803 0.41 Mon. April 28, 2008
1804 ~~ numerous documentation updates ~~
1806 - Changed all usage of die to Carp::croak for better
1807 error reporting (initial patch by Tod Hagan)
1809 ** IMPORTANT NOTE **
1810 - the make_immutable keyword is now deprecated, don't
1811 use it in any new code and please fix your old code
1812 as well. There will be 2 releases, and then it will
1818 - refactored the way inner and super work to avoid
1819 any method/@ISA cache penalty (nothingmuch)
1821 * Moose::Meta::Class
1822 - fixing &new_object to make sure trigger gets the
1823 coerced value (spotted by Charles Alderman on the
1825 - added test for this
1827 * Moose::Meta::Method::Constructor
1828 - immutable classes which had non-lazy attributes were calling
1829 the default generating sub twice in the constructor. (bug
1830 found by Jesse Luehrs, fixed by Dave Rolsky)
1831 - added tests for this (Dave Rolsky)
1832 - fix typo in initialize_body method (nothingmuch)
1834 * Moose::Meta::Method::Destructor
1835 - fix typo in initialize_body method (nothingmuch)
1837 * Moose::Meta::Method::Overriden
1838 Moose::Meta::Method::Augmented
1839 - moved the logic for these into their own
1840 classes (nothingmuch)
1842 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
1843 - inherited attributes may now be extended without
1844 restriction on the type ('isa', 'does') (Sartak)
1845 - added tests for this (Sartak)
1846 - when an attribute property is malformed (such as lazy without
1847 a default), give the name of the attribute in the error
1849 - added the &applied_traits and &has_applied_traits methods
1850 to allow introspection of traits
1851 - added tests for this
1852 - moved 'trait' and 'metaclass' argument handling to here from
1854 - clone_and_inherit_options now handles 'trait' and 'metaclass' (has
1855 '+foo' syntax) (nothingmuch)
1856 - added tests for this (t0m)
1859 - localize $@ inside DEMOLISHALL to avoid it
1860 eating $@ (found by Ernesto)
1861 - added test for this (thanks to Ernesto)
1863 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
1864 - &find_type_constraint now DWIMs when given an
1865 type constraint object or name (nothingmuch)
1866 - &find_or_create_type_constraint superseded with a number of more
1868 - find_or_create_{isa,does}_type_constraint
1869 - find_or_parse_type_constraint
1871 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint
1872 Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Class
1873 Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Role
1874 Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Enum
1875 Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Union
1876 Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Parameterized
1877 - added the &equals method for comparing two type
1878 constraints (nothingmuch)
1879 - added tests for this (nothingmuch)
1881 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint
1882 - add the &parents method, which is just an alias to &parent.
1883 Useful for polymorphism with TC::{Class,Role,Union} (nothingmuch)
1885 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Class
1886 - added the class attribute for introspection purposes
1888 - added tests for this
1890 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Enum
1891 Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Role
1892 - broke these out into their own classes (nothingmuch)
1894 * Moose::Cookbook::Recipe*
1895 - fixed references to test file locations in the POD
1896 and updated up some text for new Moose features
1900 - Added &resolve_metaclass_alias, a helper function for finding an actual
1901 class for a short name (e.g. in the traits list)
1903 0.40 Fri. March 14, 2008
1904 - I hate Pod::Coverage
1906 0.39 Fri. March 14, 2008
1908 - documenting the use of '+name' with attributes
1909 that come from recently composed roles. It makes
1910 sense, people are using it, and so why not just
1911 officially support it.
1912 - fixing the 'extends' keyword so that it will not
1913 trigger Ovid's bug (http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/35763)
1916 - added the perl -Moose=+Class::Name feature to allow
1917 monkeypatching of classes in one liners
1920 - fixing the 'apply_all_roles' keyword so that it will not
1921 trigger Ovid's bug (http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/35763)
1923 * Moose::Meta::Class
1924 - added ->create method which now supports roles (thanks to jrockway)
1925 - added tests for this
1926 - added ->create_anon_class which now supports roles and caching of
1927 the results (thanks to jrockway)
1928 - added tests for this
1929 - made ->does_role a little more forgiving when it is
1930 checking a Class::MOP era metaclasses.
1932 * Moose::Meta::Role::Application::ToInstance
1933 - it is now possible to pass extra params to be used when
1934 a role is applied to an the instance (rebless_params)
1935 - added tests for this
1937 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
1938 - class_type now accepts an optional second argument for a
1939 custom message. POD anotated accordingly (groditi)
1940 - added tests for this
1941 - it is now possible to make anon-enums by passing 'enum' an
1942 ARRAY ref instead of the $name => @values. Everything else
1944 - added tests for this
1947 - making test for using '+name' on attributes consumed
1948 from a role, it works and makes sense too.
1950 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
1951 - fix handles so that it doesn't return nothing
1952 when the method cannot be found, not sure why
1953 it ever did this originally, this means we now
1954 have slightly better support for AUTOLOADed
1956 - added more delegation tests
1957 - adding ->does method to this so as to better
1958 support traits and their introspection.
1959 - added tests for this
1962 - localizing the Data::Dumper configurations so
1963 that it does not pollute others (RT #33509)
1964 - made ->does a little more forgiving when it is
1965 passed Class::MOP era metaclasses.
1967 0.38 Fri. Feb. 15, 2008
1968 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
1969 - fixed initializer to correctly do
1970 type checking and coercion in the
1972 - added tests for this
1975 - fixed some finicky tests (thanks to konobi)
1977 0.37 Thurs. Feb. 14, 2008
1979 - fixed some details in Moose::init_meta
1980 and its superclass handling (thanks thepler)
1981 - added tests for this (thanks thepler)
1982 - 'has' now dies if you don't pass in name
1984 - added the 'make_immutable' keyword as a shortcut
1987 * Moose::Meta::Class
1988 Moose::Meta::Method::Constructor
1989 Moose::Meta::Attribute
1990 - making (init_arg => undef) work here too
1991 (thanks to nothingmuch)
1993 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
1994 Moose::Meta::Method::Constructor
1995 Moose::Meta::Method::Accessor
1996 - make lazy attributes respect attr initializers (rjbs)
1997 - added tests for this
1999 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
2000 Moose::Util::TypeConstraints::OptimizedConstraints
2001 Moose::Meta::TypeConstraints
2002 Moose::Meta::Attribute
2003 Moose::Meta::Method::Constructor
2004 Moose::Meta::Method::Accessor
2005 - making type errors use the
2006 assigned message (thanks to Sartak)
2007 - added tests for this
2009 * Moose::Meta::Method::Destructor
2010 - making sure DESTROY gets inlined properly
2011 with successive DEMOLISH calls (thanks to manito)
2013 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
2014 Moose::Meta::Method::Accessor
2015 - fixed handling of undef with type constraints
2017 - added tests for this
2020 - added &get_all_init_args and &get_all_attribute_values
2021 (thanks to Sartak and nothingmuch)
2023 0.36 Sat. Jan. 26, 2008
2025 Moose::Meta::Attribute
2026 - role type tests now support when roles are
2027 applied to non-Moose classes (found by ash)
2028 - added tests for this (thanks to ash)
2029 - couple extra tests to boost code coverage
2031 * Moose::Meta::Method::Constructor
2032 - improved fix for handling Class::MOP attributes
2033 - added test for this
2035 * Moose::Meta::Class
2036 - handled the add_attribute($attribute_meta_object)
2038 - added test for this
2040 0.35 Tues. Jan. 22, 2008
2041 * Moose::Meta::Method::Constructor
2042 - fix to make sure even Class::MOP attributes
2043 are handled correctly (Thanks to Dave Rolsky)
2044 - added test for this (also Dave Rolsky)
2046 * Moose::Meta::Class
2047 - improved error message on _apply_all_roles,
2048 you should now use Moose::Util::apply_all_roles
2049 and you shouldnt have been using a _ prefixed
2050 method in the first place ;)
2052 0.34 Mon. Jan. 21, 2008
2053 ~~~ more misc. doc. fixes ~~~
2054 ~~ updated copyright dates ~~
2056 Moose is now a postmodern object system :)
2057 - (see the POD for details)
2059 * <<Role System Refactoring>>
2060 - this release contains a major reworking and
2061 cleanup of the role system
2062 - 100% backwards compat.
2063 - Role application now restructured into seperate
2064 classes based on type of applicants
2065 - Role summation (combining of more than one role)
2066 is much cleaner and anon-classes are no longer
2067 used in this process
2068 - new Composite role metaclass
2069 - runtime application of roles to instances
2070 is now more efficient and re-uses generated
2071 classes when applicable
2073 * <<New Role composition features>>
2074 - methods can now be excluded from a given role
2076 - methods can now be aliased to another name (and
2077 still retain the original as well)
2079 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints::OptimizedConstraints
2080 - added this module (see above)
2082 * Moose::Meta::Class
2083 - fixed the &_process_attribute method to be called
2084 by &add_attribute, so that the API is now correct
2086 * Moose::Meta::Method::Accessor
2087 - fixed bug when passing a list of values to
2088 an accessor would get (incorrectly) ignored.
2089 Thanks to Sartak for finding this ;)
2090 - added tests for this (Sartak again)
2092 * Moose::Meta::Method::Accessor
2093 Moose::Meta::Method::Constructor
2094 Moose::Meta::Attribute
2095 Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint
2096 Moose::Meta::TypeCoercion
2097 - lots of cleanup of such things as:
2099 - type constraint handling
2100 - error handling/messages
2101 (thanks to nothingmuch)
2103 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Parameterizable
2104 - added this module to support the refactor
2105 in Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Parameterized
2107 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Parameterized
2108 - refactored how these types are handled so they
2109 are more generic and not confined to ArrayRef
2113 - shortened some file names for better VMS support (RT #32381)
2115 0.33 Fri. Dec. 14, 2007
2116 !! Moose now loads 2 x faster !!
2117 !! with new Class::MOP 0.49 !!
2119 ++ new oose.pm module to make command line
2120 Moose-ness easier (see POD docs for more)
2122 * Moose::Meta::Class
2124 - several tweaks to take advantage of the
2125 new method map caching in Class::MOP
2127 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Parameterized
2128 - allow subtypes of ArrayRef and HashRef to
2129 be used as a container (sartak)
2130 - added tests for this
2131 - basic support for coercion to ArrayRef and
2132 HashRef for containers (sartak)
2133 - added tests for this
2135 * Moose::Meta::TypeCoercion
2136 - coercions will now create subtypes as needed
2137 so you can now add coercions to parameterized
2138 types without having to explictly define them
2139 - added tests for this
2141 * Moose::Meta::Method::Accessor
2142 - allow subclasses to decide whether we need
2143 to copy the value into a new variable (sartak)
2145 0.32 Tues. Dec. 4, 2007
2146 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
2147 - fixing how subtype aliases of unions work
2148 they should inherit the parent's coercion
2149 - added tests for this
2150 - you can now define multiple coercions on
2151 a single type at different times instead of
2152 having to do it all in one place
2153 - added tests for this
2155 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint
2156 - there is now a default constraint of sub { 1 }
2157 instead of Moose::Util::TypeConstraints setting
2160 * Moose::Meta::TypeCoercion
2161 * Moose::Meta::TypeCoercion::Union
2162 - added the &has_coercion_for_type and
2163 &add_type_coercions methods to support the
2164 new features above (although you cannot add
2165 more type coercions for Union types)
2167 0.31 Mon. Nov. 26, 2007
2168 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
2169 - made the +attr syntax handle extending types with
2170 parameters. So "has '+foo' => (isa => 'ArrayRef[Int]')"
2171 now works if the original foo is an ArrayRef.
2172 - added tests for this.
2173 - delegation now works even if the attribute does not
2174 have a reader method using the get_read_method_ref
2175 method from Class::MOP::Attribute.
2176 - added tests for this
2177 - added docs for this
2179 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
2180 - passing no "additional attribute info" to
2181 &find_or_create_type_constraint will no longer
2182 attempt to create an __ANON__ type for you,
2183 instead it will just return undef.
2184 - added docs for this
2186 0.30 Fri. Nov. 23, 2007
2187 * Moose::Meta::Method::Constructor
2188 -builder related bug in inlined constructor. (groditi)
2190 * Moose::Meta::Method::Accessor
2191 - genereate unnecessary calls to predicates and refactor
2192 code generation for runtime speed (groditi)
2194 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
2195 - fix ClassName constraint to introspect symbol table (mst)
2196 - added more tests for this (mst)
2197 - fixed it so that subtype 'Foo' => as 'HashRef[Int]' ...
2198 with work correctly.
2199 - added tests for this
2202 - adding the link to Recipie 11 (written by Sartak)
2203 - adding test for SYNOPSIS code
2206 - New tests for builder bug. Upon instantiation, if an
2207 attribute had a builder, no value and was not lazy the
2208 builder default was not getting run, oops. (groditi)
2210 0.29 Tues. Nov. 13, 2007
2211 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
2212 - Fix error message on missing builder method (groditi)
2214 * Moose::Meta::Method::Accessor
2215 - Fix error message on missing builder method (groditi)
2218 - Add test to check for the correct error message when
2219 builder method is missing (groditi)
2221 0.28 Tues. Nov. 13, 2007
2222 - 0.27 packaged incorrectly (groditi)
2224 0.27 Tues. Nov. 13, 2007
2225 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
2226 - Added support for the new builder option (groditi)
2227 - Added support for lazy_build option (groditi)
2228 - Changed slot initialization for predicate changes (groditi)
2230 * Moose::Meta::Method::Accessor
2231 - Added support for lazy_build option (groditi)
2232 - Fix inline methods to work with corrected predicate
2235 * Moose::Meta::Method::Constructor
2236 - Added support for lazy_build option (groditi)
2239 - tests for builder and lazy_build (groditi)
2241 * fixing some misc. bits in the docs that
2242 got mentioned on CPAN Forum & perlmonks
2245 - fixed how required methods are handled
2246 when they encounter overriden or modified
2247 methods from a class (thanks to confound).
2248 - added tests for this
2250 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraint
2251 - fixed the type notation parser so that
2252 the | always creates a union and so is
2253 no longer a valid type char (thanks to
2254 konobi, mugwump and #moose for working
2256 - added more tests for this
2258 0.26 Thurs. Sept. 27, 2007
2261 * Parameterized Types
2262 We now support parameterized collection types, such as:
2263 ArrayRef[Int] # array or integers
2264 HashRef[Object] # a hash with object values
2265 They can also be nested:
2266 ArrayRef[HashRef[RegexpRef]] # an array of hashes with regex values
2267 And work with the type unions as well:
2268 ArrayRef[Int | Str] # array of integers of strings
2270 * Better Framework Extendability
2271 Moose.pm is now "extendable" such that it is now much
2272 easier to extend the framework and add your own keywords
2273 and customizations. See the "EXTENDING AND EMBEDDING MOOSE"
2274 section of the Moose.pm docs.
2277 In an effort to begin documenting some of the various
2278 details of Moose as well as some common idioms, we have
2279 created Moose::Cookbook::Snacks as a place to find
2280 small (easily digestable) nuggets of Moose code.
2283 ~ Several doc updates/cleanup thanks to castaway ~
2285 - converted build system to use Module::Install instead of
2286 Module::Build (thanks to jrockway)
2289 - added all the meta classes to the immutable list and
2290 set it to inline the accessors
2291 - fix import to allow Sub::Exporter like { into => }
2292 and { into_level => } (perigrin)
2293 - exposed and documented init_meta() to allow better
2294 embedding and extending of Moose (perigrin)
2297 - complete re-organization of the test suite
2298 - added some new tests as well
2299 - finally re-enabled the Moose::POOP test since
2300 the new version of DBM::Deep now works again
2303 * Moose::Meta::Class
2304 - fixed very odd and very nasty recursion bug with
2306 - added tests for this (eilara)
2308 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
2309 Moose::Meta::Method::Constructor
2310 Moose::Meta::Method::Accessor
2311 - fixed issue with overload::Overloaded getting called
2312 on non-blessed items. (RT #29269)
2313 - added tests for this
2315 * Moose::Meta::Method::Accessor
2316 - fixed issue with generated accessor code making
2317 assumptions about hash based classes (thanks to dexter)
2319 * Moose::Coookbook::Snacks
2320 - these are bits of documentation, not quite as big as
2321 Recipes but which have no clear place in the module docs.
2322 So they are Snacks! (horray for castaway++)
2324 * Moose::Cookbook::Recipe4
2325 - updated it to use the new ArrayRef[MyType] construct
2326 - updated the accompanying test as well
2328 +++ Major Refactor of the Type Constraint system +++
2329 +++ with new features added as well +++
2331 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraint
2332 - no longer uses package variable to keep track of
2333 the type constraints, now uses the an instance of
2334 Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Registry to do it
2335 - added more sophisticated type notation parsing
2337 - added tests for this
2339 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint
2340 - some minor adjustments to make subclassing easier
2341 - added the package_defined_in attribute so that we
2342 can track where the type constraints are created
2344 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Union
2345 - this is now been refactored to be a subclass of
2346 Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint
2348 * Moose::Meta::TypeCoercion::Union
2349 - this has been added to service the newly refactored
2350 Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Union and is itself
2351 a subclass of Moose::Meta::TypeCoercion
2353 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Parameterized
2354 - added this module (taken from MooseX::AttributeHelpers)
2355 to help construct nested collection types
2356 - added tests for this
2358 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Registry
2359 - added this class to keep track of type constraints
2361 0.25 Mon. Aug. 13, 2007
2363 - Documentation update to reference Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
2364 under 'isa' in 'has' for how to define a new type
2365 (thanks to shlomif).
2367 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
2368 - required attributes now will no longer accept undef
2369 from the constructor, even if there is a default and lazy
2370 - added tests for this
2371 - default subroutines must return a value which passes the
2373 - added tests for this
2375 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
2376 * Moose::Meta::Method::Constructor
2377 * Moose::Meta::Method::Accessor
2378 - type-constraint tests now handle overloaded objects correctly
2379 in the error message
2380 - added tests for this (thanks to EvanCarroll)
2382 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Union
2383 - added (has_)hand_optimized_constraint to this class so that
2384 it behaves as the regular Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint does.
2387 - large refactoring of this code
2388 - added several more tests
2389 - tests for subtle conflict resolition issues
2390 added, but not currently running
2393 * Moose::Cookbook::Recipe7
2394 - added new recipe for augment/inner functionality
2396 - added test for this
2399 - a formal definition of roles (still in progress)
2402 - utilities for easier working with Moose classes
2403 - added tests for these
2406 - This contains Moose specific test functions
2407 - added tests for these
2409 0.24 Tues. July 3, 2007
2410 ~ Some doc updates/cleanup ~
2412 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
2413 - added support for roles to be given as parameters
2414 to the 'handles' option.
2415 - added tests and docs for this
2416 - the has '+foo' attribute form now accepts changes to
2417 the lazy option, and the addition of a handles option
2418 (but not changing the handles option)
2419 - added tests and docs for this
2422 - required methods are now fetched using find_method_by_name
2423 so that required methods can come from superclasses
2424 - adjusted tests for this
2426 0.23 Mon. June 18, 2007
2427 * Moose::Meta::Method::Constructor
2428 - fix inlined constructor for hierarchy with multiple BUILD methods (mst)
2429 * Moose::Meta::Class
2430 - Modify make_immutable to work with the new Class::MOP immutable
2431 mechanism + POD + very basic test (groditi)
2432 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
2433 - Fix handles to use goto() so that caller() comes out properly on
2434 the other side (perigrin)
2436 0.22 Thurs. May 31, 2007
2437 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
2438 - fix for prototype undeclared issue when Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
2439 loaded before consumers (e.g. Moose::Meta::Attribute) by predeclaring
2440 prototypes for functions
2441 - added the ClassName type constraint, this checks for strings
2442 which will respond true to ->isa(UNIVERSAL).
2443 - added tests and docs for this
2444 - subtyping just in name now works correctly by making the
2445 default for where be { 1 }
2446 - added test for this
2448 * Moose::Meta::Method::Accessor
2449 - coerce and lazy now work together correctly, thanks to
2450 merlyn for finding this bug
2451 - tests added for this
2452 - fix reader presedence bug in Moose::Meta::Attribute + tests
2455 - Foo->new(undef) now gets ignored, it is assumed you meant to pass
2456 a HASH-ref and missed. This produces better error messages then
2457 having it die cause undef is not a HASH.
2458 - added tests for this
2460 0.21 Thursday, May 2nd, 2007
2462 - added SUPER_SLOT and INNER_SLOT class hashes to support unimport
2463 - modified unimport to remove super and inner along with the rest
2464 - altered unimport tests to handle this
2467 - altered super export to populate SUPER_SLOT
2469 * Moose::Meta::Class
2470 - altered augment and override modifier application to use *_SLOT
2471 - modified tests for these to unimport one test class each to test
2474 - fixed issue where custom attribute metaclasses
2475 where not handled correctly in roles
2476 - added tests for this
2478 * Moose::Meta::Class
2479 - fixed issue where extending metaclasses with
2480 roles would blow up. Thanks to Aankhen`` for
2481 finding this insidious error, and it's solution.
2483 ~~ lots of spelling and grammer fixes in the docs,
2484 many many thanks to rlb3 and Aankhen for these :)
2486 0.20 Friday, April 6th, 2007
2487 >> I messed up the SKIP logic in one test
2488 so this release is just to fix that.
2491 - 'has' now also accepts an ARRAY ref
2492 to create multiple attrs (see docs)
2493 (thanks to konobi for this)
2494 - added tests and docs
2496 0.19 Thurs. April 5th, 2007
2497 ~~ More documentation updates ~~
2499 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
2500 - 'type' now supports messages as well
2501 thanks to phaylon for finding this
2502 - added tests for this
2503 - added &list_all_type_constraints and
2504 &list_all_builtin_type_constraints
2505 functions to facilitate introspection.
2507 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
2508 - fixed regexp 'handles' declarations
2509 to build the list of delegated methods
2510 correctly (and not override important
2511 things like &new) thanks to ashleyb
2513 - added tests and docs for this
2514 - added the 'documentation' attributes
2515 so that you can actually document your
2516 attributes and inspect them through the
2518 - added tests and docs for this
2520 * Moose::Meta::Class
2521 - when loading custom attribute metaclasses
2522 it will first look in for the class in the
2523 Moose::Meta::Attribute::Custom::$name, and
2524 then default to just loading $name.
2525 - added tests and docs for this
2527 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint
2528 - type constraints now stringify to their names.
2529 - added test for this
2532 - added tests to assure we work with Module::Refresh
2533 - added stricter test skip logic in the Moose POOP
2534 test, ask Rob Kinyon why.
2535 - *cough* DBM::Deep 1.0 backwards compatibility sucks *cough* ;)
2537 0.18 Sat. March 10, 2007
2538 ~~ Many, many documentation updates ~~
2541 - We now use Class::MOP::load_class to
2543 - added tests to show types and subtypes
2544 working with Declare::Constraints::Simple
2545 and Test::Deep as constraint engines.
2548 !! You must have Class::MOP 0.37_001 !!
2549 !! for this developer release to work !!
2551 This release was primarily adding the immutable
2552 feature to Moose. An immutable class is one which
2553 you promise not to alter. When you set the class
2554 as immutable it will perform various bits of
2555 memoization and inline certain part of the code
2556 (constructors, destructors and accessors). This
2557 minimizes (and in some cases totally eliminates)
2558 one of Moose's biggest performance hits. This
2559 feature is not on by default, and is 100% optional.
2560 It has several configurable bits as well, so you
2561 can pick and choose to your specific needs.
2563 The changes involved in this were fairly wide and
2564 highly specific, but 100% backwards compatible, so
2565 I am not going to enumerate them here. If you are
2566 truely interested in what was changed, please do
2569 0.17 Tues. Nov. 14, 2006
2570 * Moose::Meta::Method::Accessor
2571 - bugfix for read-only accessors which
2572 are have a type constraint and lazy.
2573 Thanks to chansen for finding it.
2575 0.16 Tues. Nov. 14, 2006
2577 There are some speed improvements in this release,
2578 but they are only the begining, so stay tuned.
2581 - BUILDALL and DEMOLISHALL no longer get
2582 called unless they actually need to be.
2583 This gave us a signifigant speed boost
2584 for the cases when there is no BUILD or
2585 DEMOLISH method present.
2587 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
2588 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint
2589 - added an 'optimize_as' option to the
2590 type constraint, which allows for a
2591 hand optimized version of the type
2592 constraint to be used when possible.
2593 - Any internally created type constraints
2594 now provide an optimized version as well.
2596 0.15 Sun. Nov. 5, 2006
2598 This version of Moose *must* have Class::MOP 0.36 in order
2599 to work correctly. A number of small internal tweaks have
2600 been made in order to be compatible with that release.
2602 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
2603 - added &unimport so that you can clean out
2604 your class namespace of these exported
2607 * Moose::Meta::Class
2608 - fixed minor issue which occasionally
2609 comes up during global destruction
2611 - moved Moose::Meta::Method::Overriden into
2615 - moved Moose::Meta::Role::Method into
2618 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
2619 - changed how we do type checks so that
2620 we reduce the overall cost, but still
2623 - moved accessor generation methods to
2624 Moose::Meta::Method::Accessor to
2625 conform to the API changes from
2628 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint
2629 - changed how constraints are compiled
2630 so that we do less recursion and more
2631 iteration. This makes the type check
2633 - moved Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Union
2636 * Moose::Meta::Method::Accessor
2637 - created this from methods formerly found in
2638 Moose::Meta::Attribute
2640 * Moose::Meta::Role::Method
2641 - moved this from Moose::Meta::Role
2643 * Moose::Meta::Method::Overriden
2644 - moved this from Moose::Meta::Class
2646 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Union
2647 - moved this from Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint
2649 0.14 Mon. Oct. 9, 2006
2651 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
2652 - fixed lazy attributes which were not getting
2653 checked with the type constraint (thanks ashley)
2654 - added tests for this
2655 - removed the over-enthusiastic DWIMery of the
2656 automatic ArrayRef and HashRef defaults, it
2657 broke predicates in an ugly way.
2658 - removed tests for this
2660 0.13 Sat. Sept. 30, 2006
2662 This version of Moose *must* have Class::MOP 0.35 in order
2663 to work correctly. A number of small internal tweaks have
2664 been made in order to be compatible with that release.
2667 - Removed the use of UNIVERSAL::require to be a better
2668 symbol table citizen and remove a dependency
2669 (thanks Adam Kennedy)
2671 **~~ removed experimental & undocumented feature ~~**
2672 - commented out the 'method' and 'self' keywords, see the
2673 comments for more info.
2676 - added a FAQ and WTF files to document frequently
2677 asked questions and common problems
2679 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
2680 - added GlobRef and FileHandle type constraint
2681 - added tests for this
2683 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
2684 - if your attribute 'isa' ArrayRef of HashRef, and you have
2685 not explicitly set a default, then make the default DWIM.
2686 This will also work for subtypes of ArrayRef and HashRef
2688 - you can now auto-deref subtypes of ArrayRef or HashRef too.
2689 - new test added for this (thanks to ashley)
2692 - added basic support for runtime role composition
2693 but this is still *highly experimental*, so feedback
2694 is much appreciated :)
2695 - added tests for this
2697 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint
2698 - the type constraint now handles the coercion process
2699 through delegation, this is to support the coercion
2702 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Union
2703 - it is now possible for coercions to be performed
2705 - added tests for this (thanks to konobi)
2707 * Moose::Meta::TypeCoercion
2708 - properly capturing error when type constraint
2712 - Scalar::Util 1.18 is bad on Win32, so temporarily
2713 only require version 1.17 for Win32 and cygwin.
2714 (thanks Adam Kennedy)
2716 0.12 Sat. Sept. 1, 2006
2718 - Recipe5 (subtypes & coercion) has been written
2721 - fixed "bad meta" error message to be more descriptive
2722 - fixed &unimport to not remove the &inner and &super
2723 keywords because we need to localize them.
2724 - fixed number of spelling/grammer issues, thanks Theory :)
2726 **~~ experimental & undocumented feature ~~**
2727 - added the method and self keywords, they are basically
2728 just sugar, and they may not stay around.
2731 - added &dump method to easily Data::Dumper
2734 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint
2735 - added the &is_a_type_of method to check both the current
2736 and the subtype of a method (similar to &isa with classes)
2739 - this is now a subclass of Class::MOP::Module, and no longer
2740 creates the _role_meta ugliness of before.
2741 - fixed tests to reflect this change
2743 0.11 Wed. July 12, 2006
2745 - added an &unimport method to remove all the keywords
2746 that Moose will import, simply add 'no Moose' to the
2747 bottom of your class file.
2750 - fixed some test failures caused by a forgotten test
2753 0.10 Thurs. July 6, 2006
2755 - improved error message when loading modules so
2756 it is less confusing when you load a role.
2757 - added &calculate_all_roles method to
2758 Moose::Meta::Class and Moose::Meta::Role
2761 This module has been tested against Class::MOP 0.30
2762 but it does not yet utilize the optimizations
2763 it makes available. Stay tuned for that ;)
2765 0.09_03 Fri. June 23, 2006
2766 ++ DEVELOPER RELEASE ++
2768 - 'use strict' and 'use warnings' are no longer
2769 needed in Moose classes, Moose itself will
2770 turn them on for you.
2771 - added tests for this
2772 - moved code from exported subs to private methods
2773 in Moose::Meta::Class
2776 - as with Moose, strict and warnings are
2777 automatically turned on for you.
2778 - added tests for this
2781 - now handles an edge case for override errors
2782 - added tests for this
2783 - added some more edge case tests
2785 0.09_02 Tues. May 16, 2006
2786 ++ DEVELOPER RELEASE ++
2788 - added prototypes to the exported subs
2792 - added prototypes to the exported subs
2795 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
2796 - cleaned up prototypes for the subs
2799 0.09_01 Fri. May 12, 2006
2800 ++ DEVELOPER RELEASE ++
2801 - This release works in combination with
2802 Class::MOP 0.29_01, it is a developer
2803 release because it uses the a new
2804 instance sub-protocol and a fairly
2805 complete Role implementation. It has
2806 not yet been optimized, so it slower
2807 the the previous CPAN version. This
2808 release also lacks good updated docs,
2809 the official release will have updated docs.
2812 - refactored the keyword exports
2813 - 'with' now checks Role validaity and
2814 accepts more than one Role at a time
2815 - 'extends' makes metaclass adjustments as
2816 needed to ensure metaclass compatibility
2819 - refactored the keyword exports
2820 - 'with' now checks Role validaity and
2821 accepts more than one Role at a time
2823 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
2824 - added the 'enum' keyword for simple
2825 string enumerations which can be used as
2827 - see example of usage in t/202_example.t
2830 - more careful checking of params to new()
2833 - much work done on the role composition
2834 - many new tests for conflict detection
2835 and composition edge cases
2836 - not enough documentation, I suggest
2837 looking at the tests
2839 * Moose::Meta::Instance
2840 - added new Instance metaclass to support
2841 the new Class::MOP instance protocol
2843 * Moose::Meta::Class
2844 - some small changes to support the new
2846 - some small additions to support Roles
2848 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
2849 - some improvements to the accessor generation code
2851 - some small changes to support the new
2853 - (still somewhat) experimental delegation support
2854 with the 'handles' option
2855 - added several tests for this
2856 - no docs for this yet
2858 0.05 Thurs. April 27, 2006
2860 - keywords are now exported with Sub::Exporter
2861 thanks to chansen for this commit
2862 - has keyword now takes a 'metaclass' option
2863 to support custom attribute meta-classes
2864 on a per-attribute basis
2865 - added tests for this
2866 - the 'has' keyword not accepts inherited slot
2867 specifications (has '+foo'). This is still an
2868 experimental feature and probably not finished
2869 see t/038_attribute_inherited_slot_specs.t for
2870 more details, or ask about it on #moose
2871 - added tests for this
2874 - keywords are now exported with Sub::Exporter
2876 * Moose::Utils::TypeConstraints
2877 - reorganized the type constraint hierarchy, thanks
2878 to nothingmuch and chansen for his help and advice
2880 - added some tests for this
2881 - keywords are now exported with Sub::Exporter
2882 thanks to chansen for this commit
2884 * Moose::Meta::Class
2885 - due to changes in Class::MOP, we had to change
2886 construct_instance (for the better)
2888 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
2889 - due to changes in Class::MOP, we had to add the
2890 initialize_instance_slot method (it's a good thing)
2892 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint
2893 - added type constraint unions
2894 - added tests for this
2895 - added the is_subtype_of predicate method
2896 - added tests for this
2898 0.04 Sun. April 16th, 2006
2900 - Roles can now consume other roles
2901 - added tests for this
2902 - Roles can specify required methods now with
2903 the requires() keyword
2904 - added tests for this
2907 - ripped out much of it's guts ,.. much cleaner now
2908 - added required methods and correct handling of
2909 them in apply() for both classes and roles
2910 - added tests for this
2911 - no longer adds a does() method to consuming classes
2912 it relys on the one in Moose::Object
2913 - added roles attribute and some methods to support
2914 roles consuming roles
2916 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
2917 - added support for triggers on attributes
2918 - added tests for this
2919 - added support for does option on an attribute
2920 - added tests for this
2922 * Moose::Meta::Class
2923 - added support for attribute triggers in the
2925 - added tests for this
2928 - Moose no longer creates a subtype for your class
2929 if a subtype of the same name already exists, this
2930 should DWIM in 99.9999% of all cases
2932 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
2933 - fixed bug where incorrect subtype conflicts were
2935 - added test for this
2938 - this class can now be extended with 'use base' if
2939 you need it, it properly loads the metaclass class now
2940 - added test for this
2942 0.03_02 Wed. April 12, 2006
2944 - you must now explictly use Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
2945 it no longer gets exported for you automatically
2948 - new() now accepts hash-refs as well as key/value lists
2949 - added does() method to check for Roles
2950 - added tests for this
2952 * Moose::Meta::Class
2953 - added roles attribute along with the add_role() and
2955 - added tests for this
2958 - now adds a does() method to consuming classes
2959 which tests the class's hierarchy for roles
2960 - added tests for this
2962 0.03_01 Mon. April 10, 2006
2964 - added new Role recipe (no content yet, only code)
2967 - added 'with' keyword for Role support
2968 - added test and docs for this
2969 - fixed subtype quoting bug
2970 - added test for this
2974 - added test and docs
2976 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
2977 - added the message keyword to add custom
2978 error messages to type constraints
2981 - the meta role to support Moose::Role
2982 - added tests and docs
2984 * Moose::Meta::Class
2985 - moved a number of things from Moose.pm
2986 to here, they should have been here
2989 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
2990 - moved the attribute option macros here
2991 instead of putting them in Moose.pm
2993 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint
2994 - added the message attributes and the
2996 - added tests and docs for this
2998 0.03 Thurs. March 30, 2006
3000 - added the Moose::Cookbook with 5 recipes,
3001 describing all the stuff Moose can do.
3004 - fixed an issue with &extends super class loading
3005 it now captures errors and deals with inline
3006 packages correctly (bug found by mst, solution
3008 - added super/override & inner/augment features
3009 - added tests and docs for these
3012 - BUILDALL now takes a reference of the %params
3013 that are passed to &new, and passes that to
3016 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
3017 - Type constraints now survive runtime reloading
3018 - added test for this
3020 * Moose::Meta::Class
3021 - fixed the way attribute defaults are handled
3022 during instance construction (bug found by chansen)
3024 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
3025 - read-only attributes now actually enforce their
3026 read-only-ness (this corrected in Class::MOP as
3029 0.02 Tues. March 21, 2006
3031 - many more tests, fixing some bugs and
3033 - &extends now loads the base module with
3035 - added UNIVERSAL::require to the
3038 - each new Moose class will also create
3039 and register a subtype of Object which
3040 correspond to the new Moose class.
3041 - the 'isa' option in &has now only
3042 accepts strings, and will DWIM in
3045 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
3046 - added type coercion features
3047 - added tests for this
3048 - added support for this in attributes
3049 and instance construction
3051 - type construction no longer creates a
3052 function, it registers the type instead.
3053 - added several functions to get the
3057 - BUILDALL and DEMOLISHALL were broken
3058 because of a mis-named hash key, Whoops :)
3060 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
3061 - adding support for coercion in the
3062 autogenerated accessors
3064 * Moose::Meta::Class
3065 - adding support for coercion in the
3066 instance construction
3068 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint
3069 * Moose::Meta::TypeCoercion
3070 - type constraints and coercions are now
3071 full fledges meta-objects
3073 0.01 Wed. March 15, 2006
3074 - Moooooooooooooooooose!!!