NAME
MooseX::Atom - Non-immutable classes are silly. Lets fix that.
SYNOPSIS
# Catalyst the official way
package Foo;
use Moose;
use namespace::autoclean;
BEGIN {
extends 'Catalyst::Controller::REST';
with 'My::Something';
}
__PACKAGE__->meta->make_immutable;
# Catalyst the (equivalent) atomic way
package Bar;
use MooseX::Atom [
extends => 'Catalyst::Controller::REST',
with => 'My::Something',
];
DESCRIPTION
WARNING: THIS MODULE IS PRIMARILY A POLITICAL STATEMENT AT THIS TIME AND
MAY CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE IN RESPONSE TO FEEDBACK
Moose is an interesting object system, but it's interface can leave a
lot to be desired.
Classes are built incrementally at post-BEGIN time despite the
appearance to being declared at compile time.
Classes are also polluted by exported symbols by default.
Additionally, the syntax of the workarounds to reverse some of this
weirdness is ugly. "__PACKAGE__-"meta->make_immutable> is possibly one
of the worst official API interactions of all time.
MooseX::Atom attempts to resolve as much of this as possible, in as
little code as possible and with no additional dependencies or dramatic
parser-alterations such as with MooseX::Declare.
Declarations are passed directly in the "use" line, nothing is left in
the calling class, and the class will be automatically and immediately
immutable.
The resulting alternative syntax for Moose may not be ideal, but it
demonstrates the kind of alternative syntactic sugar that would at least
be far nicer than the one we get out of the box.
Equivalent syntactic sugar for roles is provided by MooseX::Role::Atom.
SUPPORT
Bugs should be reported via the CPAN bug tracker at
<
http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=MooseX-Atom>
AUTHOR
Adam Kennedy <
[email protected]>
SEE ALSO
Moose
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2010 Adam Kennedy.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.
The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included
with this module.
