What do you think of MooseX::Declare?

Question

I've stumbled upon the MooseX::Declare documentation, and I have to say "WOW!". That looks really nice! I think it's the cleanest OOP syntax Perl has.

use MooseX::Declare;

class BankAccount {
    has 'balance' => ( isa => 'Num', is => 'rw', default => 0 );

    method deposit (Num $amount) {
        $self->balance( $self->balance + $amount );
    }

    method withdraw (Num $amount) {
        my $current_balance = $self->balance();
        ( $current_balance >= $amount )
            || confess "Account overdrawn";
        $self->balance( $current_balance - $amount );
    }
}

Example Copied from the documentation.

What do you think? Can Perl OOP be any nicer?

Answer 1

I am not sure what your question is. "Can Perl OOP be any nicer?" Probably, but I do agree that MX::Declare is good. I use it almost exclusively now.

Answer 2

I've learned to "hate" Perl. I stumbled across MooseX a day ago and it brought some hope back. Will definitely take a look at it in the future.

Answer 3

I've been playing with it off and on for a few weeks....

The only thing that trips me up is remembering to use inside the class defs.

Otherwise, I've been thinking about using for my next small to medium size project.