----------------------------------------------------------- -- Type Constraints refactor ----------------------------------------------------------- - move the details of TC construction that are in Moose.pm and Moose::Util::TypeConstraints into the Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint module This will make it much easier to generate TCs on their own, without having to use the sugar layer. This should also clean up their APIs as well, which will make it easier to subclass them. - create an official TC registry API Right now the registration of the TC is a by-product of creation in the sugar layer, this is bad and make extension of TCs difficult. I am not sure if this registry API should exist as part of Moose::Util::TypeConstraints, or of we should create a complete registry object itself. This registry should be a singleton, but M::U::TC should enforce that lifecycle choice so that you can use your own registry if you really want too. I mean parent of the registry. So that I can create my own registry object for a given class, and any retrieval of a type constraint from this object would automatically search parent registries as well. - refactor the various TC internals to make it more subclassing friendly This also includes the coercion stuff as well. This should give you what you need to make your object/class bound stuff. - move the container TCs from MooseX::AttributeHelpers into Moose core These have proven so useful for me in the latest $work project that I think they should really be core. - allow a switch of some kind to optionally turn TC checking off at runtime The type checks can get expensive and some people have suggested that allowing the checks to be turned off would be helpful for deploying into performance intensive systems. Perhaps this can actually be done as an option to make_immutable? - misc. minor bits * make the errors for TCs use ->message * look into localizing the messages too * make ANON TCs be lazy, so they can possibly be subsituted for the real thing later * make ANON TCs more introspectable ----------------------------------------------------------- -- Roles refactor ----------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------- -- Immutable refactor -----------------------------------------------------------