Hello Monks,

I don't now how many of you have used MooseX-InsideOut but I was playing around with it the other day and discovered something odd. When you sub-class a standard Moose class with MooseX-InsideOut, unless you redefine the attributes in the child class, you cannot assign to them at object creation.

For example:

#!/usr/bin/env perl
{
    package Normal::Moose::Class;
    use Moose;
    has 'name' => (
        is      => 'rw',
        default => __PACKAGE__,
    );
    no Moose;
    1;
}
{
    package Repeat::Attr::No;
    use MooseX::InsideOut;
    extends 'Normal::Moose::Class';
    no MooseX::InsideOut;
    1;
}
{
    package Repeat::Attr::Yes;
    use MooseX::InsideOut;
    extends 'Normal::Moose::Class';
    has '+name' => (
        default => __PACKAGE__,
    );
    no MooseX::InsideOut;
    1;
}
{
    package main;
    use 5.010_000;
    use strict;
    use warnings;
    use Test::More 'no_plan';

    # Test a standard Moose class
    my $norm_moose = Normal::Moose::Class->new( name => 'normal-moose-
+class' );
    is( $norm_moose->name, 'normal-moose-class', 'normal-moose-class h
+as the correct name' );

    # Test the sub class with unmodified attribute
    my $io_moose = Repeat::Attr::No->new( name => 'repeat-attr-no' );
    is( $io_moose->name, undef, 'insideout subclass does not assign to
+ attribute name on creation' );
    $io_moose->name('repeat-attr-no');
    is( $io_moose->name, 'repeat-attr-no', 'but will at any other time
+' );

    # Test the sub class with modified attribute
    my $child = Repeat::Attr::Yes->new( name => 'repeat-attr-yes' );
    is( $child->name, 'repeat-attr-yes', 'unless you modify the attrib
+ute in the class declaration' );

    exit 0;
}
__END__
ok 1 - normal-moose-class has the correct name
ok 2 - insideout subclass does not assign to attribute name on creatio
+n
ok 3 - but will at any other time
ok 4 - unless you modify the attribute in the class declaration
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As you can imagine, it would be really annoying to have to go through each attribute and modify them just so they work! (This does not seem to be a problem when sub-classing a standard perl hash-based class)

Is this desired behaviour? Is there some flag I'm missing somewhere (init_arg or the like...)? Could this be a bug? I'm just curious here =)

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