[Mason-devel] Moose + Mason

[Hans Dieter Pearcey]

rjbs mentioned this combination tonight, and I thought I would brainstorm:

1) parameter validation (the really obvious one)

<%args>
$foo => Str
@baz => ArrayRef[DateTime]
$quux # implicit Any
</%args>

I'd assume coerce => 1 here -- I can't think of any way of turning it off
gracefully, but I've also never wanted to. Dunno.

2) roles, somehow?

Magic pixie dust! I don't know, I just know I frequently want reuse that
autohandler doesn't work for.

The most common use of autohandler is like having a method that does this:

sub CONTENT {
$m->comp('/header');
inner;
$m->comp('footer');
}

The problem is that this inner/augment pattern is completely orthogonal to
almost every other kind of code reuse I find myself wanting to do with
components, which has more to do with e.g. /foo/bar in one comp root overriding
/foo/bar in another, while still getting the same autohandler-wrapping that it
would normally get.

I'm not sure yet how Moose would help with this at all.

hdp.