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Use Sub::Quote

One attempt at this exists in the sub-quotify branch.

This has several parts.

First, type constraints should accept a single constraint parameter, rather than both a constraint and an inline_generator. If the constraint is a Sub::Quote sub, we can use that for inlining. This greatly simplified the API.

The same should be done for the coercion & inline_generator parameters for coercions.

Finally, the message_generator should be allow for a Sub::Quote sub and use that for inlining if possible.

I'm not sure what the best API for the Sub::Quote subs is. Unlike with the existing generators, Sub::Quote expects that parameters are always passed via @_. This probably means that the sub you write should always look at $_[0], which is a little gross when inlining, as it means we have to jam things into @_ with something like:

  local @_ = ($value);

Note that this also means not passing in the type constraint/coercion as the first argument. In other words, these subs are no longer methods. This is probably better for inlining anyway. Anything you wanted from the object should be something you can inline anyway (I hope).

Note that parameterizable types still need to provide a parameterized_inline_generator sub (not a Sub::Quote). This sub shoudl return a quoted sub based on the type parameter. Sub::Quote makes this harder than it should be because it doesn't have a very nice API. Oh well.

Union types and other set operations?

I'm not a huge fan of unions, they really confuse the notion of parent type, for one thing. However, set operations on types are pretty useful.

Better integration with Moose

Make Moose support inlining coercions and message generation with Specio objects.

Also, define a real API for type objects and have Moose just use duck typing internally. However, this should not be the existing Moose TC API, since it's quite broken. In particular, the relationship between constraint & coercion objects is backwards. A constraint should have many coercions, not vice versa. Specio gets this right.

Support MooseX::Types barewords and string types with SpecioX modules

For barewords:

  use SpecioX::Declare::Barewords => qw( Specio::Library::Builtins My::Library );

  use Moose;

  has foo => ( isa => Str );

For string types:

  use SpecioX::StringTypes => qw( Specio::Library::Builtins My::Library );

  use Moose;

  has foo => ( isa => 'Str' );

Or something like that.

Internally these can both provide an attr trait and class trait that together look up a registry for the class by name, something like:

  use Specio::Registry qw( registry_for_package );

  my $registry = registry_for_package($package);

To parse things like "ArrayRef[Str]" we need to separate the type string parsing into its module that can return a data structure like:

  %parsed = (
      name      => 'ArrayRef',
      parameter => 'Str',
  );

Then we can look these up with:

  my $type = t( $parsed{name}, of => t( $parsed{parameter} ) );