Re^5: Moose or Mouse for production use

I may have exactly what you are looking for. Ovid has a series of blog articles about his attempts to solve some of the inheritance tangles at the BBC. Here they are in order. Pictures of the class hierarchy in question. Initial thoughts on how roles might help. Then he ran into an interesting technical issue. More thoughts on refactoring using Moose roles. Then roles start to pay off for him. Then more on why this is good.

This gives you a sense of how migrating to Moose worked out for a good programmer on a realistically complex code base. Better yet, he describes exactly why it was helpful for him, and you get to see both the positives and negatives with a timeline to indicate how much of an investment this was.

Speaking personally my reaction was, "I'd rather work on a small code base without all of that complexity." But if I had to work in a larger code base, I'd definitely investigate whether Moose could clean things up.

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Re^6: Moose or Mouse for production use by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Apr 02, 2009 at 07:42 UTC
I may have exactly what you are looking for. Indeed you do. Thank you to Ovid for making this available. And a double thankyou to you for not only pointing me at it, but for the effort you expended in picking out the series relevant to my interest. Above and beyond++ I am now absolutely convinced by Roles. I've had a gut feel that they were something special from way back when I first encountered them here and sought further information about them, and I've been an avid follower of any discussion about them whenever them come up here. Whether Moose (and the overhead and complexity of Class::MOP), is the only or best way of gaining access to them from P5 is still an open question in my mind. Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error. "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority". In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice. "Too many [] have been sedated by an oppressive environment of political correctness and risk aversion."	[reply]

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Re^6: Moose or Mouse for production use
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Apr 02, 2009 at 07:42 UTC

I may have exactly what you are looking for.

Indeed you do. Thank you to Ovid for making this available. And a double thankyou to you for not only pointing me at it, but for the effort you expended in picking out the series relevant to my interest. Above and beyond++

I am now absolutely convinced by Roles. I've had a gut feel that they were something special from way back when I first encountered them here and sought further information about them, and I've been an avid follower of any discussion about them whenever them come up here.

Whether Moose (and the overhead and complexity of Class::MOP), is the only or best way of gaining access to them from P5 is still an open question in my mind.

Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.

"Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority".

In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.

"Too many [] have been sedated by an oppressive environment of political correctness and risk aversion."

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