Moose::Meta::Attribute::Native::Trait::Bool(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Moose::Meta::Attribute::Native::Trait::Bool(3)

Moose::Meta::Attribute::Native::Trait::Bool - Helper trait for Bool attributes

version 2.4000

package Room;
use Moose;
has 'is_lit' => (
    traits  => ['Bool'],
    is      => 'rw',
    isa     => 'Bool',
    default => 0,
    handles => {
        illuminate  => 'set',
        darken      => 'unset',
        flip_switch => 'toggle',
        is_dark     => 'not',
    },
);
my $room = Room->new();
$room->illuminate;        # same as $room->is_lit(1);
$room->darken;            # same as $room->is_lit(0);
$room->flip_switch;       # same as $room->is_lit(not $room->is_lit);
return $room->is_dark;    # same as !$room->is_lit

This trait provides native delegation methods for boolean values. A boolean is a scalar which can be 1, 0, "", or "undef".

If you don't provide an "isa" value for your attribute, it will default to "Bool".

None of these methods accept arguments.

  • set

    Sets the value to 1 and returns 1.

  • unset

    Set the value to 0 and returns 0.

  • toggle

    Toggles the value. If it's true, set to false, and vice versa.

    Returns the new value.

  • not

    Equivalent of 'not $value'.

See "BUGS" in Moose for details on reporting bugs.

  • Stevan Little <stevan@cpan.org>
  • Dave Rolsky <autarch@urth.org>
  • Jesse Luehrs <doy@cpan.org>
  • Shawn M Moore <sartak@cpan.org>
  • יובל קוג'מן (Yuval Kogman) <nothingmuch@woobling.org>
  • Karen Etheridge <ether@cpan.org>
  • Florian Ragwitz <rafl@debian.org>
  • Hans Dieter Pearcey <hdp@cpan.org>
  • Chris Prather <chris@prather.org>
  • Matt S Trout <mstrout@cpan.org>

This software is copyright (c) 2006 by Infinity Interactive, Inc.

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

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