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NAME

Sub::Attributes - meta programming with subroutine attributes

SYNOPSIS

  package Point;
  use base 'Sub::Attributes';

  # croak if not called as a class method
  sub new :ClassMethod {
    ...
  }

  # croak if not called as object method
  sub add : Method {
    ...
  }

  # private subroutine, will croak unless called from within Point package
  sub _internal_logic : Private Method {
    ...
  }

  # Typical method modifiers ala LISP & Class::Method::Modifiers
  # before, after & around all occur at compile time
  sub check_state : Before(add) {
    ...
  }

  sub doubleme : After(add) {
    ...
  }
  # orig is a coderef to add, it needs to be given $self becase it's an object
  # method
  sub filter_calls : Around(add) {
    my ($orig, $self, @args) = @_;
    my $result = $orig->($self, @args);
    ...
  }

  package main;
  my $p = Point->new(3,8);
  $p->sub_attributes(); # { add => ['Method'], _internal_logic => ['Private','Method'], ... }

METHODS

sub_attributes

Returns a hashref of subroutine names and their attributes.

SEE ALSO

AUTHOR

© 2016 David Farrell

LICENSE

See LICENSE

REPOSITORY

https://github.com/dnmfarrell/Sub-Attributes

BUGTRACKER

https://github.com/dnmfarrell/Sub-Attributes/issues