Why Moose: a database perspective

Darn it, I've always avoided Moose because it felt like too much overhead - this is bad old habits from ye olden tymes when I learned the trade - and at the same time, I didn't feel sufficiently motivated by the actual merits of using it.

But along comes a nice article about using Moose for data constraints in the same way one does this at the database level and suddenly I feel the need to start using it.

The short version is: Moose allows you to declare a lot of data logic so you shoot yourself in the foot less.  I like that.