Re: Moose Type Constraints violations to warnings?

On Mon, 13 Jun 2011, Ovid wrote:

> I don't want to turn off the type checks. I would just like some of them to be warnings if we're in production.
>
> I agree completely with the *concept* of the strict type constraints, but 
>
>
>   "In theory, theory and practice are the same.
>   In practice, we're trying to comb spaghetti."
>   Abraham Lincoln, 1912 speech to the Republican Women's De-emancipation Convention
>
> If a hotel's "short description" must be no longer than 200 characters, 
> they would much prefer to have the first 200 characters of their hotel's 
> 250-character description displayed rather than nothing.

You can use coercions to do this, can't you? You could even warn inside 
the coercion.


-dave

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