Introducing Moops

[tobyink]

Moops is sugar for writing object-oriented Perl. It provides similar syntax to MooseX::Declare and Stevan Little's p5-mop-redux.

It's some glue between Moo, Type::Tiny, Function::Parameters and Try::Tiny, but for those occasions when you want the backing of a meta object protocol, allows you to easily swap Moose (or even Mouse) in place of Moo with very minimal changes.

Here's an example of a complete, usable class definition in Moops:

   use Moops;
   
   class Person :ro {
      has first_name => (isa => Str);
      has last_name  => (isa => Str);
   }

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[Anonymous Monk]

but for those occasions when you want the backing of a meta object protocol,

When is that?

[tobyink]

The MOP is useful when you need to perform lots of class introspection. It's therefore a requirement for a lot of class-building extensions - i.e. most of the MooseX namespace, such as MooseX::Clone, MooseX::Privacy, MooseX::MultiMethods, etc.

That is; you probably want to use Moose if there's some MooseX module that catches your eye, or you need to delve into $class->meta; and use Moo otherwise.