Re: Announcement: Moose 2.0800 is released!

On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Jesse Luehrs <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 09:30:59AM -0700, Chris Weyl wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Jesse Luehrs <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 06:23:55PM +0100, curtis_ovid_poe wrote:
> > > > Is the idea of deprecating alias and excludes just speculation, or is
> > > > this the plan for the future?
> > >
> > > It has always been my plan, but it's been a while since I discussed it
> > > with anyone.
> > >
> >
> > Why would we do that?  Those are extremely useful features, and I'm
> having
> > a hard time visualizing a benefit to removing method aliasing and
> exclusion.
>
> What do you use them for?
>

One example would be an extension in providing a new native trait accessor
type...  (that I've had hanging out in an attic branch forever):

https://gist.github.com/c29c165e1aacda7018a5

Aliasing allows me to trivially shunt one method aside and create a new one
in its place w/o having to resort to method modifiers.

-- 
Chris Weyl
Ex astris scientia