Thanks again for the info. I was trying to see if there was a Perl Mongers group in our area. Seems like there used to be one in Hartford CT but now is defunct? Web site not operational.
In the meantime, I just received the new Catalyst book and started poring over it. I was happy to see its inclusion of coverage on Moose. It's an easy sell to me. Anyhow, good stuff on these links. Got me some book lernin' to do I think... On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 9:41 AM, J. Shirley <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 6:11 AM, Eric Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Thanks all for the thoughts and the link. I'll be sure to take some time >> and digest that. >> >> Re: method modifiers, that sounds like a really interesting solution. >> Roles seem very similar to me to Java interfaces. I really need to get more >> on board with understanding how Moose can best be utilized. I'm still very >> green. Plus the proliferation of object frameworks in Perl can leave you >> with analysis paralysis but things seem to be moving more that way in the >> Perl community especially with Perl 6 (somewhere?) on the horizon. >> >> I've got the new Apress Catalyst book on pre-order. Any other recommended >> reading resources? >> >> Cheers, >> Eric >> > > I'm going to be very opinionated for a moment, so the TIMTOWDI crowd can > skip this message. > > Don't bother with other object frameworks. They really lack what makes > Moose special. Moose is built on top of Class::MOP. That's the meta-object > protocol which enables you to have a meta-layer and change the entire API > that Moose itself builds on. > > This lets you do a tremendous amount of things with usually very little > code. The learning curve is also not quite as steep as you would expect. > > Here's an anecdote to prove my case ;) > > The other day I wanted to update the behavior of an attribute. Someone > pointed out "attribute trait". I looked it up in the cookbook, and I was > able to get exactly what I wanted by changing the definition of what that > attribute was. By changing the definition of things, you can change what > the instances of those things are very easily. Unfortunately my case was > thwarted by some other things, so it didn't work exactly as intended... but > it will :) > > Unless you have experience with Lisp or the like, you're not going to > initially appreciate what Moose is. You'll think of it as a heavy-weight > object API, but trust a random guy on the internet when he says it is worth > it. > > The manual is an easy read and worth following, and here is a good > presentation on Moose as well (lacks a little oompf without hearing Dieter's > voice): http://weftsoar.net/~hdp/moose/<http://weftsoar.net/%7Ehdp/moose/> > > Regarding books, I'd say venture out to your local Perl Monger meetings and > talk to them and borrow some of their books. That way you can sample it, > and find out the books that speak to you and then you can purchase those. > > Thanks, > -J > > > _______________________________________________ > List: [email protected] > Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst > Searchable archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/ > > -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Eric Wright Rapid Synergy LLC Web Development, Software & Consulting V: 203.758.9270 F: 203.725.0853 http://www.rapidsynergy.com -----------------------------------------------------------
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