You digressed a bit to talk about Roles...that could be a new topic. I know Roles (in the abstract sense) quite a lot better than I do about Moose. One of the things you mentioned makes me ponder a bit, but my meditation queue is a bit long already.

(I've also noticed how delegation makes aggregation much cleaner to use. So... if the Role doesn't mess with the containing object, just use delegation and containment. Using 'handles' you have the clean syntax without mentioning the composited object.) Why am I likely to remain a Moose user?

For the same reason that Perl's best feature is CPAN; Moose has "community support". It does do things for me that I've gotten benefit from, and many new features and different ways of approaching things is already published and ready to reuse.

Also, major packages like Catalyst and FormFu are Moose-ified, so if I will monkey around with those I need to know what I'm doing.

So, you didn't comment on the second of my ponderables: can Moose live with direct access to state as hash elements of $self?

In reply to Re^4: Some thoughts on Moose Attributes by John M. Dlugosz
in thread Some thoughts on Moose Attributes by John M. Dlugosz

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