I rate the Params::Validate module very highly. (Thank you, Dave Rolsky.)

I've been using Params::Validate for a couple of months now, for a large project we're working on, and I've found it to be outstanding. Some things we like about it:

• The interface is reasonably easy to understand, and the power it gives is very flexible.
• It verifies all kinds of things: types (isa), interfaces (can), array refs, hash refs, regular expressions (use it with Regexp::Common!).
• In addition, you can write your own validators.
• In addition, you can turn it off (that is, turn the validation into a no-op) in production code, if you don't like the performance penalty.
• The documentation is quite clear.
• We've found that the validate(@_, ...) statements at the top of our functions form a very useful kind of API documentation. (I've been thinking about a way to automatically turn these statements into POD for documenting APIs.)

It might be overkill depending on your application, but if you have a group of developers working together on something, it provides very a clear consistent way to enforce your expectations for a function's inputs.

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