Moose 0.51

Hi gang,

I uploaded Moose 0.51 to CPAN last night. (I didn't upload a new
Class::MOP because there were only very minor tweaks)

There's a new feature, BUILDARGS. It lets you munge whatever is passed
to ->new. You can now accept any kind of parameters you want; you only
need to return a hashref. This is more convenient than wrapping new,
and it also lets Moose inline the constructor when you make_immutable.

nothingmuch came up with the idea and implementation in record time.
You may have noticed a bunch of MooseX releases -- these were because
if you create an inlined constructor (for immutable), you need to
start taking into account BUILDARGS.

There were some other good changes. Keep on Moosin'!

Shawn M Moore

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0.51 Thurs. Jun 26, 2008
    * Moose::Role
      - add unimport so "no Moose::Role" actually does
        something (sartak)

    * Moose::Meta::Role::Application::ToRole
      - when RoleA did RoleB, and RoleA aliased a method from RoleB in
        order to provide its own implementation, that method still got
        added to the list of required methods for consumers of
        RoleB. Now an aliased method is only added to the list of
        required methods if the role doing the aliasing does not
        provide its own implementation. See Recipe 11 for an example
        of all this. (Dave Rolsky)
        - added tests for this

    * Moose::Meta::Method::Constructor
      - when a single argument that wasn't a hashref was provided to
        an immutabilized constructor, the error message was very
        unhelpful, as opposed to the non-immutable error. Reported by
        dew. (Dave Rolsky)
        - added test for this (Dave Rolsky)

    * Moose::Meta::Attribute
      - added support for meta_attr->does("ShortAlias") (sartak)
        - added tests for this (sartak)
      - moved the bulk of the `handles` handling to the new
        install_delegation method (Stevan)

    * Moose::Object
      - Added BUILDARGS, a new step in new()

    * Moose::Meta::Role::Application::RoleSummation
      - fix typos no one ever sees (sartak)

    * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
    * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint
    * Moose::Meta::TypeCoercion
      - Attempt to work around the ??{ } vs. threads issue
      - Some null_constraint optimizations

• Moose 0.51 by Sartak