Comments on: Devel::IntelliPerl released on an unsuspecting world.

By: Moritz Onken

Moritz Onken — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:17:27 +0000

Hi Mark,

the problem is that I need to eval the current file for Class::MOP so that it finds the package “Test”.

What I do already is that I remove the “$self->” because this is a syntax error as well. Fixing all other syntax errors is like, well, writing a script which fixes syntax errors automatically. I don’t think this is feasible.

Any ideas are much appreciated :-)

By: Mark Grimes

Mark Grimes — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:00:10 +0000

Will this only work if the current file is basically compilable? For example, you couldn’t auto complete $self-> for this:

package Test;
use Moose;
has a_variable => ( is => ‘rw’, isa => ‘Str’ );

sub a_method {
my $self = shift;
$self->

# no closing }

Correct? Is there anyway to get PPI to work around this?

By: Moritz Onken

Moritz Onken — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:33:15 +0000

I bound it to alt+Tab since Tab is already taken for the snippet completion.

By: SF

SF — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 14:36:09 +0000

Actually, my problem was just stupid on my part — triggering it after $dir gets that message, triggering it after $dir-> works as desired. I just confirmed I do not have to save first for this to work — not surprising, as you’re sending the entire source to the script, right? (Though it is titled, as it has been saved before.)

Thanks for the script and your help! This looks like a really useful tool. Now I just need to figure out what key to bind it to…

By: Moritz Onken

Moritz Onken — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 08:34:40 +0000

@SF:
I think you need to save the file first. It doesn’t seem to work from “untitled” files.

@nperez:
I had a look at those two but both rely on the Moose type system which means I can introspect the type, but probably not the class which is returned by that type. There is a Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Class which has a ->class method, but that is rarely used.

By: nperez

nperez — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 05:39:20 +0000

Have you looked at MooseX::Method::Signatures and MooseX::Declare? MXMS provides return type constraints that you can introspect.

By: SF

SF — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:05:13 +0000

Okay, when I try it now I get this message: “Can’t call method “namespace” without a package or object reference at /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Devel/IntelliPerl.pm line 97, line 38.”

I triggered it on the second $dir in this script…

By: SF

SF — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 23:01:40 +0000

Got it — for some reason it wasn’t catching Module::Build as a dependency. (Discovered when I tee’d cpan’s output so I could submit it.) I just used cpan to install M::B first, then Moose installed without problems. As did Devel::IntelliPerl just now! Thanks!

By: SF

SF — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 22:39:45 +0000

Thanks! Generating a proper error log now…

By: Moritz Onken

Moritz Onken — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:30:57 +0000

Moose should install fine on Mac OS X. I use the standard apple perl version and Moose installed without problems.
Bug the moose mailing list or visit #moose at irc.perl.org. I’m sure they can help you with that!