Acme::Magpie - steals shiny things
use Acme::Magpie; # oh no, some of the shiny methods have gone away no Acme::Magpie; # phew, they're back now
The Magpie is a bird known for stealing shiny things to build its nest from, Acme::Magpie attempts to be a software emulation of this behaviour.
When invoked Acme::Magpie scans the symbol tables of your program and stores attractive (shiny) methods in the %Acme::Magpie::Nest hash.
Shinyness is determined by the return value of the shiny method this can be redefined by child classes:
package Acme::Magpie::l33t; use strict; use base qw(Acme::Magpie); sub shiny { local ($_) = $_[1] =~ /.*::(.*)/; return tr/[0-9]// > tr/[a-z][A-Z]//; } 1; __END__
This magpie considers identifiers with more numbers than letters as shiny. The code is installed with this distribution.
Acme::Magpie will cause most of the code you use it in to die because the subroutines it tries to execute just won't be there. This is considered a feature.
Richard Clamp <richardc@unixbeard.net>, original idea by Tom Hukins
Copyright (C) 2002 Richard Clamp. All Rights Reserved. This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
To install Acme::Magpie, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Acme::Magpie
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Acme::Magpie
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.