Moose 0.41

on Perl CPAN

• Changed all usage of die to Carp::croak for better
  error reporting (initial patch by Tod Hagan)
  

** IMPORTANT NOTE **

• the make_immutable keyword is now deprecated, don't
  use it in any new code and please fix your old code
  as well. There will be 2 releases, and then it will
  be removed.

• Moose
  Moose::Role
  Moose::Meta::Class

  • refactored the way inner and super work to avoid
    any method/@ISA cache penalty (nothingmuch)
    

• Moose::Meta::Class

  • fixing &new_object to make sure trigger gets the
    coerced value (spotted by Charles Alderman on the
    mailing list)
    
  • added test for this
    

• Moose::Meta::Method::Constructor

  • immutable classes which had non-lazy attributes were calling
    the default generating sub twice in the constructor. (bug
    found by Jesse Luehrs, fixed by Dave Rolsky)
    
  • added tests for this (Dave Rolsky)
    
  • fix typo in initialize_body method (nothingmuch)
    

• Moose::Meta::Method::Destructor

  • fix typo in initialize_body method (nothingmuch)
    

• Moose::Meta::Method::Overriden
  Moose::Meta::Method::Augmented

  • moved the logic for these into their own
    classes (nothingmuch)
    

• Moose::Meta::Attribute

  • inherited attributes may now be extended without
    restriction on the type ('isa', 'does') (Sartak)
    
  • added tests for this (Sartak)
    
  • when an attribute property is malformed (such as lazy without
    a default), give the name of the attribute in the error
    message (Sartak)
    
  • added the &applied_traits and &has_applied_traits methods
    to allow introspection of traits
    
  • added tests for this
    
  • moved 'trait' and 'metaclass' argument handling to here from
    Moose::Meta::Class
    
  • clone_and_inherit_options now handles 'trait' and 'metaclass' (has
    '+foo' syntax) (nothingmuch)
    
  • added tests for this (t0m)
    

• Moose::Object

  • localize $@ inside DEMOLISHALL to avoid it
    eating $@ (found by Ernesto)
    
  • added test for this (thanks to Ernesto)
    

• Moose::Util::TypeConstraints

  • &find_type_constraint now DWIMs when given an
    type constraint object or name (nothingmuch)
    
  • &find_or_create_type_constraint superseded with a number of more
    specific functions:
    
  • find_orcreate{isa,does}_type_constraint
    
  • find_or_parse_type_constraint
    

• Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint
  Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Class
  Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Role
  Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Enum
  Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Union
  Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Parameterized

  • added the &equals method for comparing two type
    constraints (nothingmuch)
    
    • added tests for this (nothingmuch)
      

• Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint

  • add the &parents method, which is just an alias to &parent.
    Useful for polymorphism with TC::{Class,Role,Union} (nothingmuch)
    

• Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Class

  • added the class attribute for introspection purposes
    (nothingmuch)
    
  • added tests for this
    

• Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Enum
  Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Role

  • broke these out into their own classes (nothingmuch)
    

• Moose::Cookbook::Recipe*

  • fixed references to test file locations in the POD
    and updated up some text for new Moose features
    (Sartak)
    

• Moose::Util

  • Added &resolve_metaclass_alias, a helper function for finding an actual
    class for a short name (e.g. in the traits list)