Hi, I wonder if there is an "official" way to retrieve the order in which attributes have been declared in a Moose-based class, e.g. when I have a class defined as 

package Hubba;
use Moose;
has abba => (is => 'rw');
has zappa => (is => 'rw');

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I want to have a way to retrive (via the meta-class) the information that abba has been declared before zappa.

In fact I can get to what I want by doing this: 

my $h = Hubba->new( abba => 1, zappa => 2);
my @atts = $h->meta->{_meta_instance}->{slots};

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Then @atts contains the list "abba", "zappa".

But of course this looks a bit hacky...

And please don't ask me what I need it for - at the moment I am just learing what you can and cannot do with Moose.

Many thanks!

In reply to declaration order of attributes in Moose by morgon

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