NAME

       MooseX::Types::Perl - Moose types that check against Perl syntax

VERSION

       version 0.101342

SYNOPSIS

         use MooseX::Types::Perl qw(
           DistName

           ModuleName
           PackageName

           Identifier
           SafeIdentifier

           LaxVersionStr
           StrictVersionStr
           VersionObject
         );

DESCRIPTION

       This library provides Moose types for checking things (mostly strings) against syntax that
       is, or is a reasonable subset of, Perl syntax.

TYPES

   ModuleName
   PackageName
       These types are identical, and expect a string that could be a package or module name.
       That's basically a bunch of identifiers stuck together with double-colons.  One key quirk
       is that parts of the package name after the first may begin with digits.

       The use of an apostrophe as a package separator is not permitted.

   DistName
       The DistName type checks for a string like "MooseX-Types-Perl", the sort of thing used to
       name CPAN distributions.  In general, it's like the more familiar ModuleName, but with
       hyphens instead of double-colons.

       In reality, a few distribution names may not match this pattern -- most famously, "CGI.pm"
       is the name of the distribution that contains CGI.  These exceptions are few and far
       between, and deciding what a "LaxDistName" type would look like has not seemed worth it,
       yet.

   Identifier
       An Identifier is something that could be used as a variable name.  Generally, it's a bunch
       of alphanumeric characters not starting with a digit.

       Although Perl identifiers may contain non-ASCII characters in some circumstances, this
       type does not allow it.  A "UnicodeIdentifier" type may be added in the future.

   SafeIdentifier
       SafeIdentifiers are just like Identifiers, but omit the single-letter variables
       underscore, a, and b, as these have special significance.

   LaxVersionStr
   StrictVersionStr
       Lax and strict version strings use the is_lax and is_strict methods from "version" to
       check if the given string would be a valid lax or strict version.  version::Internals
       covers the details but basically:  lax versions are everything you may do, and strict omit
       many of the usages best avoided.

   VersionObject
       Just for good measure, this type is included to check if a value is a version object.
       Coercions from LaxVersionStr (and thus StrictVersionStr) are provided.

AUTHOR

       Ricardo SIGNES <rjbs@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       This software is copyright (c) 2013 by Ricardo SIGNES.

       This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as
       the Perl 5 programming language system itself.