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NAME

Sub::Inspector - get infomation from a subroutine reference

VERSION

This document describes Sub::Inspector version 0.01.

SYNOPSIS

    use Sub::Inspector;

    # get file, line, name

    use File::Spec;
    my $code = File::Spec->can('canonpath');
    my $inspector = Sub::Inspector->new($code);

    print $inspector->file; #=> '/Users/Cside/perl5/ ... /File/Spec/Unix.pm'
    print $inspector->line; #=> 71
    print $inspector->name; #=> 'canonpath'

    # get prototype

    use Try::Tiny;
    my $inspector2 = Sub::Inspector->new(\&try);

    print $inspector2->proto; #=> '&;@'

    # get attributes

    use AnyEvent::Handle;
    my $code = AnyEvent::Handle->can('rbuf');
    my $inspector3 = Sub::Inspector->new(\&try);

    print $inspector3->attrs; #=> ('lvalue')

DESCRIPTION

This module enable to get metadata (prototype, attributes, method name, etc) from a coderef. We can get them by the buit-in module, B.pm. However, it is a bit difficult to memorize how to use it.

INTERFACE

Methods

$inspector->file
$inspector->line
$inspector->name
$inspector->proto

alias: prototype

$inspector->attrs

alias: attributes

SEE ALSO

B
B::Deparser

AUTHOR

Hiroki Honda (Cside) <cside.story [at] gmail.com>

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) Hiroki Honda.

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