The other day I ran across a pattern in our codebase at $work, and I was mightily impressed.  It solved a problem I had run into before, but the solution here was much more elegant than mine, so I’m officially stealing it.  And sharing it with you.

The problem that we’re looking at today is building Moose attributes.  Now, in and of itself, there’s nothing exciting going on there.  Perhaps we might have an attribute whose value comes out of a config file, so we might build it like so: