[ANN] validate.args - 1.2.4

[Diab Jerius <dj@...>]

Hi,

This is an update to the validate.args package, which provides a
framework for validation of function arguments and data structures.

A few of the major changes since the last public release (1.0.1) are:

      * the validation engine now uses objects to encapsulate state and
        allows sub-classing of objects
      * hooks are provided to massage data before and after validation
      * A new module validate.inplace provides "live" validation of data
        during assignment to table elements

The last addition makes validation more user-friendly by providing proxy
tables which validate on the fly, so that a user can do something like

         config.foo = -3

and the assignment will throw an error if config.foo is only supposed to
take positive numbers.

A rockspec and a complete tarball are available here:

https://bitbucket.org/djerius/validate.args/downloads/validate-args-1.2.4-1.rockspec
https://bitbucket.org/djerius/validate.args/downloads/validate-args-1.2.4.tar.gz

A more detailed list of changes is here:

https://bitbucket.org/djerius/validate.args/src/8b47ced5e539/NEWS