On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 07:47:01PM +0000, sh...@comcast.net wrote:
>
> I cannot make this work:
>
>
> use MooseX::Declare;
>
>
> class Foo {
> use Moose::Util::TypeConstraints;
> subtype 'NewType' => as 'Object';
>
>
> method bar (NewType $arg) {
>
>
> }
> }
>
>
> I get the following error:
>
>
> 'NewType' could not be parsed to a type constraint - maybe you need to
> pre-declare the type with class_type at reader
> Parse::Method::Signatures::TypeConstraint::tc (defined at /home/yshtil/
> lib/perl5/site_perl/5.14.1/Parse/Method/Signatures/TypeConstraint.pm line 20)
> line 7
MooseX::Declare requires that type names are available during
compilation, but 'subtype' happens at runtime, which is too late. You
can move your type declaration to a separate type library and 'use' it
in your module, or you can wrap the subtype declaration in a BEGIN
block.
-doy
