NAME

Class::MOP::Method::Constructor - Method Meta Object for constructors

VERSION

version 2.1101

SYNOPSIS

  use Class::MOP::Method::Constructor;

  my $constructor = Class::MOP::Method::Constructor->new(
      metaclass => $metaclass,
      options   => {
          debug => 1, # this is all for now
      },
  );

  # calling the constructor ...
  $constructor->body->execute($metaclass->name, %params);

DESCRIPTION

This is a subclass of Class::MOP::Method which generates constructor methods.

METHODS

Class::MOP::Method::Constructor->new(%options)

This creates a new constructor object. It accepts a hash reference of options.

• metaclass

  This should be a Class::MOP::Class object. It is required.

• name

  The method name (without a package name). This is required.

• package_name

  The package name for the method. This is required.

• is_inline

  This indicates whether or not the constructor should be inlined. This defaults to false.

$metamethod->is_inline

Returns a boolean indicating whether or not the constructor is inlined.

$metamethod->associated_metaclass

This returns the Class::MOP::Class object for the method.

AUTHORS

• Stevan Little <stevan.little@iinteractive.com>

• Dave Rolsky <autarch@urth.org>

• Jesse Luehrs <doy@tozt.net>

• Shawn M Moore <code@sartak.org>

• Yuval Kogman <nothingmuch@woobling.org>

• Karen Etheridge <ether@cpan.org>

• Florian Ragwitz <rafl@debian.org>

• Hans Dieter Pearcey <hdp@weftsoar.net>

• Chris Prather <chris@prather.org>

• Matt S Trout <mst@shadowcat.co.uk>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2006 by Infinity Interactive, Inc..

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.