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On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 01:23:06PM -0800, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
> What say we make named parameters part of Perl 5.12? (Finally?!)
>
> A quick check of CPAN suggests that Schwern's code in Method::Signature
> defines the state of this particular art.
No.
The state of the art is defined by:
rafl's signatures.pm
rhesa's Method::Signatures::Simple
rafl's MooseX::Method::Signatures
which are all being used for production code[0] - the last one is based on
gaal's Perl6::Signatures work although we'll probably move it to its own
custom parser at some point. This is what's likely to be supported by default
in future Catalyst/DBIx::Class stuff and MooseX::Declare.
Schwern's stuff is basically a prototyping land and has shown a lack of
stability - Method::Signatures::Simple was a reaction to it failing to install
on win32 when the Data::Alias stuff was first introduced and a desire to
keep things relatively minimal until Moose-land has had a chance to really
shake out what we want from a larger feature set.
However, I'm not sure this is how we should be looking at the problem. What
I'd really prefer to see is a way to allow pluggable signature parsers as
a pragma (which I think is roughly where rafl's signatures.pm is going) and
provide a simple default along the lines of Method::Signatures::Simple's
syntax.
At the very least, we should do that -first- and keep an eye on what stabilises
out on CPAN before considering bringing anything more complex near the core.
[0] admittedly in the case of MX::Method::Signatures only under controlled
conditions with a subset of the syntax so far - the documented syntax in that
module is considered largely stable now, although we're not encouraging wide
use yet.
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