Re: Bug / feature / idiot user?

On Mon, 22 Sep 2008, Andy Armstrong wrote:

> I've finally buckled to peer pressure and adopted Moose. So far I /really/ 
> like it. Thanks.
>
> I'm having a problem that may well just be me doing something silly. Given 
> the following:
>
>   $ cat Configurable.pm
>   package Configurable;
>
>   use Moose::Role;
>   use Configuration;

This _loads_ Configuration, which provides an option method. It doesn't 
import said methods or anything like that.

>   $ cat Thing.pm
>   package Thing;
>
>   use Moose;
>
>   with 'Configurable', 'Loggable';
>
>   sub run { shift->log }

So when you get here, you still haven't implemented an option method in 
Thing.

> If I uncomment the implementation of C<option> in Configurable.pm it works
> just fine - and delegates correctly to the C<option> in Configuration.pm.
>
> If I comment out the 'requires' in Loggable it also works fine.
>
> So I guess the combination of delegation and role composition puts the
> implementation of C<option> out of reach to requires?
>
> Am I doing something silly?

Yes, definitely ;)

I have no idea what you expect Moose to be doing here, honestly.


-dave

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