[Catalyst-dev] Moose + Catalyst port

[Mike Whitaker]

>>  I think if you're going to bother Moose-ifying Catalyst, you  
>> might as well
>>  look into replacing the attribute-based declarations with something
>>  Moose-like. I know mst has thoughts on this.
>>
>>  Off the top of my head, I'd imagine something like this:
>>
>>   dispatch local => sub { ... };
>>
>>   dispatch chained '_chain_start' => args 1 => sub { ... };
>
> I agree too, the sugar comes later though. My original vision was to
> use custom method metaclasses for different types of actions, which
> would in turn have attributes that represent the options for that type
> of act

Maybe in the long term :)

Short term, the Holy Grail is backwards compatibility :)
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