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All the Perl that's Practical to Extract and Report

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  • I really like this. I was already tinkering with my extract_method script to make use of this gem of yours, and references were one of my unsolved issues. Thanks for fixing that so quickly :)

    Is there any chance code attributes will be supported? I'd like to use this with CGI::Application, and I bet it'd be cool for Catalyst too.

    • Catalyst has plans to obsolete the attribute syntax in favour of something very much like Method::Signatures, where you write something very roughly like

      action foo (/bar/baz) { ... }

      rather than

      sub foo : Chained('/bar/baz') { ... }

      … at least that was the idea when I last heard of it.

      • I'm already having issues with how "magical" bits of Catalyst are. Using hooks into the op-tree to stack the magic stuff on doesn't really reassure me. Does it seem warranted?

        • Assuming that these bits of Catalyst would also be done with Devel::Declare, and guessing that it's still mostly mst hacking on Devel::Declare, it all depends on whether he's hit by a bus, doesn't it?

          Personally, I'd rather worry about whether, by getting too cosy with the internals, Catalyst may eventually get similar breakage as Rails did between Ruby releases.

          • Indeed.

            Data::Alias has already horribly died once, plus it doesn't work anywhere that forbids the hack it uses to reference unexported symbols.

            • There was discussion on p5p a while back to pull modules like PadWalker and Data::Alias into the core on the basis that they are highly dependent on the internals, and need to be maintained in synch, but that never happened. I still think it’s a good idea; Data::Alias and PadWalker allow things that are indispensable in some situations, and leaving them fend for themselves seems like a choice that diminishes the value of the entire Perl ecosystem to an extent.

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