Re: Moose neophyte questions

On Mon, 22 Dec 2008, Chris Prather wrote:

>> I'm thinking default => \&sub_name,
>> will do the trick.
>
> that would work as well but 'builder => method_name' is cleaner

And inheritable/overridable.

>> - the coerce keyword can coerce from a number of things. If it is
>>  coercing from Object, how does it know that $_ is an Object? If it
>>  is to coerce from Str, how does it know that $_ is a Str?
>
> To check if an Object is an Object it uses Scalar::Util's blessed(),
> and a Str is a Str if it isn't a ref, and doesn't look like a number
> (using I believe Scalar::Utils looks_like_number).

Actually, a Str is any defined non-reference. It can look like a number. 
Under the hood, Value and Str are exactly the same, cause this is Perl.


-dave

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