Devel::StrictMode - determine whether strict (but slow) tests should be enabled
package MyClass; use Moose; use Devel::StrictMode; has input_data => ( is => 'ro', isa => STRICT ? "HashRef[ArrayRef[Str]]" : "HashRef", required => 1, );
This module provides you with a constant STRICT which you can use to determine whether additional strict (but slow) runtime tests are executed by your code.
STRICT
STRICT is true if any of the following environment variables have been set to true:
PERL_STRICT EXTENDED_TESTING AUTHOR_TESTING RELEASE_TESTING
STRICT is false otherwise.
It is anticipated that you might set one or more of the above variables to true while running your test suite, but leave them all false in your production scenario.
Although not exported by default, a constant LAX is also provided, which returns the opposite of STRICT.
LAX
Type constraint checks (isa) are conducted at run time. Slow checks can slow down your constructor and accessors. As shown above, STRICT can be used to alternate between a slower by stricter type constraint check, and a faster but looser one.
isa
Don't try this if your attribute coerces. It will subtly break things.
You may protect blocks of assertions with an if (STRICT) { ... } conditional to ensure that they only run in your testing environment.
if (STRICT) { ... }
sub fibonacci { my $n = $_[0]; if (STRICT) { die "expected exactly one argument" unless @_ == 1; die "expected argument to be a natural number" unless $n =~ /\A[0-9]+\z/; } $n < 2 ? $n : fibonacci($n-1)+fibonacci($n-2); }
Because STRICT is a constant, the Perl compiler will completely optimize away the if block when running in your production environment.
if
Thanks to if it's easy to use STRICT to conditionally load pragmata.
use Devel::StrictMode; use strict; use warnings STRICT ? qw(FATAL all) : qw(all); no if STRICT, "bareword::filehandles"; no if STRICT, "autovivification";
See also autovivification, bareword::filehandles, indirect, multidimensional, etc.
Please report any bugs to http://rt.cpan.org/Dist/Display.html?Queue=Devel-StrictMode.
strictures.
Toby Inkster <tobyink@cpan.org>.
This software is copyright (c) 2014 by Toby Inkster.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
To install Devel::StrictMode, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Devel::StrictMode
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Devel::StrictMode
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.