=head1 DESCRIPTION
-L<Moose> is wonderful. B<Use Moose instead of Mouse.>
+L<Moose|Moose> is a postmodern object system for Perl5. Moose is wonderful.
Unfortunately, Moose has a compile-time penalty. Though significant progress
has been made over the years, the compile time penalty is a non-starter for
some very specific applications. If you are writing a command-line application
or CGI script where startup time is essential, you may not be able to use
-Moose. We recommend that you instead use L<HTTP::Engine> and FastCGI for the
-latter, if possible.
+Moose. We recommend that you instead use persistent Perl executing environments
+like C<FastCGI> for the latter, if possible.
-Mouse aims to alleviate this by providing a subset of Moose's functionality,
-faster.
+Mouse is a Moose compatible object system, which aims to alleviate this by
+providing a subset of Moose's functionality.
We're also going as light on dependencies as possible. Mouse currently has
-B<no dependencies> except for testing modules.
+B<no dependencies> except for testing modules. Mouse also works without XS,
+although it has an XS backend to make it much faster.
=head2 MOOSE COMPATIBILITY
The idea is that, if you need the extra power, you should be able to run
C<s/Mouse/Moose/g> on your codebase and have nothing break. To that end,
-we have written L<Any::Moose> which will act as Mouse unless Moose is loaded,
+we have written L<Any::Moose|Any::Moose> which will act as Mouse unless Moose is loaded,
in which case it will act as Moose. Since Mouse is a little sloppier than
Moose, if you run into weird errors, it would be worth running:
},
);
-
- # Because Mouse::Util is loaded first in all the Mouse sub-modules,
- # XS loader is placed here, not in Mouse.pm.
-
our $VERSION = '0.68';
my $xs = !(exists $INC{'Mouse/PurePerl.pm'} || $ENV{MOUSE_PUREPERL} || $ENV{PERL_ONLY});
+ # Because Mouse::Util is loaded first in all the Mouse sub-modules,
+ # XSLoader must be placed here, not in Mouse.pm.
if($xs){
# XXX: XSLoader tries to get the object path from caller's file name
# $hack_mouse_file fools its mechanism
-
(my $hack_mouse_file = __FILE__) =~ s/.Util//; # .../Mouse/Util.pm -> .../Mouse.pm
$xs = eval sprintf("#line %d %s\n", __LINE__, $hack_mouse_file) . q{
- local $^W = 0; # work around 'redefine' warning to &install_subroutines
+ local $^W = 0; # workaround 'redefine' warning to &install_subroutines
require XSLoader;
XSLoader::load('Mouse', $VERSION);
Mouse::Util->import({ into => 'Mouse::Meta::Method::Constructor::XS' }, ':meta');
{
package # hide from PAUSE
Class::C3;
- our %MRO; # work around 'once' warnings
+ our %MRO; # avoid 'once' warnings
}
# MRO::Compat::__get_linear_isa has no prototype, so