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.
* Thu Dec 07 2023 MSVSphere Packaging Team <packager@msvsphere-os.ru> - 0.42-2
- Rebuilt for MSVSphere 8.8
* Fri Feb 09 2018 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 0.42-2
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_28_Mass_Rebuild
* Mon Nov 06 2017 Paul Howarth <paul@city-fan.org> - 0.42-1
- Update to 0.42
- Fixed checks for whether a class is loaded in light of upcoming
optimization in Perl 5.28 (GH#12)
- The Perl library claimed it provided types named LaxVersionStr and
StrictVersionStr but they were really named LaxVersion and StrictVersion;
the names have now been fixed to match the documentation, so they are
LaxVersionStr and StrictVersionStr
* Fri Aug 04 2017 Paul Howarth <paul@city-fan.org> - 0.40-1
- Update to 0.40
- Fixed more bugs with {any,object}_{can,does,isa}_type
- When passed a glob (not a globref) they would die in their type check
- On Perl 5.16 or earlier, passing a number to an any_* type would also die
- Fixed subification overloading: if Sub::Quote was loaded, this would be
used, but any environment variables needed for the closure would not be
included, which broke enums, among other things
* Thu Aug 03 2017 Paul Howarth <paul@city-fan.org> - 0.39-1
- Update to 0.39
- Many bug fixes and improvements to the types created by
{any,object}_{can,does,isa}_type; in some cases, an invalid value could
cause an exception in type check itself, and in other cases, a value that
failed a type check would cause an exception when generating a message
describing the failure
- The messages describing a failure for all of these types have been improved
- You can now create anonymous *_does and *_isa types using the exports from
Specio::Declare
* Thu Jul 27 2017 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 0.38-2
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_27_Mass_Rebuild
* Sat Jul 01 2017 Paul Howarth <paul@city-fan.org> - 0.38-1
- Update to 0.38
- Simplify checks for overloading to not call overload::Overloaded(); just
checking the return value of overload::Method() is sufficient
* Wed Jun 07 2017 Jitka Plesnikova <jplesnik@redhat.com> - 0.37-3
- Perl 5.26 re-rebuild of bootstrapped packages
* Mon Jun 05 2017 Jitka Plesnikova <jplesnik@redhat.com> - 0.37-2
- Perl 5.26 rebuild
* Tue May 09 2017 Paul Howarth <paul@city-fan.org> - 0.37-1
- Update to 0.37
- Possible fix for very weird failures seen under threaded Perls with some
modules that use Specio
