NAME

Moose::Cookbook::Snack::Keywords - Restricted keywords in Moose

DESCRIPTION

There are several keywords exported in Moose that cause clashes against any barewords such as attribute names, sub names, and globs.

The 'meta' keyword

While most of the reserved keywords collisions can be avoided, however meta is the only one you cant override. Do not attempt to override meta.

Moose Keywords

If you are using Moose its best to avoid these keywords

extends

with

has

before

after

around

super

override

inner

augment

make_immutable

confess

blessed

Moose::Util::TypeConstraints Keywords

If you are using Moose::Util::TypeConstraints its best to avoid these keywords

type

subtype

class_type

role_type

as

where

message

optimize_as

coerce

from

via

enum

find_type_constraint

register_type_constraint

Avoiding collisions

Turning off Moose

To remove the keywords Moose exports using no Moose at the bottom of your code

package Thing;
use Moose;

# code here

no Moose;

Sub::Exporter

The Sub::Exporter module can rename keywords

package LOL::Cat;
use Moose 'has' => { -as => 'i_can_haz' };

i_can_haz 'cheeseburger' => (
   is      => 'rw',
   trigger => sub { print "NOM NOM" }
);

LOL::Cat->new->cheeseburger('KTHNXBYE');;

namespace::clean

You can use namespace::clean to clean up the namespace

AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT

John Goulah <jgoulah@cpan.org<gt>

LICENSE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as perl itself.