- New upstream release 0.30
- Fix a bug with the Sub::Quoted sub returned by $type->coercion_sub; if a
type had more than one coercion, the generated sub could end up coercing
the value to undef some of the time and, depending on hash key ordering,
this could end up being a heisenbug that only occured some of the time
- New upstream release 0.28
- Added a Test::Specio module to provide helpers for testing Specio libraries
- Fixed another bug with a subtype of special types and inlining
- Introduce sub-package perl-Test-Specio to avoid dependencies on Test::Fatal
and Test::More in main package
- New upstream release 0.27
- Cloning a type with coercions defined on it would cause an exception
- Creating a subtype of a special type created by *_isa_type, *_can_type, or
*_does_type, or enum would die when trying to inline type constraint
- Removed the never-documented Any type
- Added documentation for each type in Specio::Library::Builtins
- New upstream release 0.25
- Calling {any,object}_{isa,does}_type repeatedly in a package with the same
class or role name would die; these subs are now special-cased to simply
return an existing type for the given name when they receive a single
argument (the name of the class or role)
The Specio distribution provides classes for representing type constraints
and coercion, along with syntax sugar for declaring them.
Note that this is not a proper type system for Perl. Nothing in this
distribution will magically make the Perl interpreter start checking a value's
type on assignment to a variable. In fact, there's no built-in way to apply a
type to a variable at all.
Instead, you can explicitly check a value against a type, and optionally coerce
values to that type.
Paul Howarth
Fedora Release Engineering