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Forest-0.04
River stage two • 3 direct dependents • 15 total dependents
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/ Forest

NAME

Forest - A collection of n-ary tree related modules

DESCRIPTION

Forest is intended to be a replacement for the Tree::Simple family of modules, and fixes many of the issues that have always bothered me about them. It is by no means a complete replacement yet, but should eventually grow to become that.

For more information please refer to the individual module documentation.

DISCLAIMER

This module has been sitting on my laptop for a long time waiting to be released. I am pretty happy with it's current state, but it has not been used very much yet so I am not 100% sure it is as stable as Tree::Simple (which it is meant to replace). So please, use with caution. Also being that this is a the 0.02 release I reserve the right to re-write the entire thing if I want too.

All that said, we use n-ary trees pretty heavily at $work and this module will be replacing all our Tree::Simple usage so it will eventually improve in stability, performance and functionality.

TODO

More documentation

This is 0.02 so it is lacking quite a bit of docs. Although I invite people to read the source, it is quite simple really.

More tests

The coverage is in the low 90s, but there is still a lot of behavioral stuff that could use some testing too.

SEE ALSO

Tree::Simple

I wrote this module a few years ago and I had served me well, but recently I find myself getting frustrated with some of the uglier bits of this module. So Forest is a re-write of this module.

Tree

This is an ambitious project to replace all the Tree related modules with a single core implementation. There is some good code in here, but the project seems to be very much on the back-burner at this time.

O'Caml port of Forest

Ask me about the O'Caml port of this module, it is also sitting on my hard drive waiting for release. It actually helped quite a bit in terms of helping me settle on the APIs for this module. Static typing can be very helpful sometimes.

BUGS

All complex software has bugs lurking in it, and this module is no exception. If you find a bug please either email me, or add the bug to cpan-RT.

AUTHOR

Stevan Little <stevan.little@iinteractive.com>

With contributions from:

Guillermo (groditi) Roditi

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright 2008 Infinity Interactive, Inc.

http://www.iinteractive.com

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.