NAME

Meta::Utils::Arg - module to help you checking argument types to methods/functions.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Mark Veltzer; All rights reserved.

LICENSE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.

DETAILS

        MANIFEST: Arg.pm
        PROJECT: meta
        VERSION: 0.11

SYNOPSIS

        package foo;
        use Meta::Utils::Arg qw();
        Meta::Utils::Arg::check_arg_num(\@_,3);

DESCRIPTION

This is a general utility module for either miscelleneous commands which are hard to calssify or for routines which are just starting to form a module and have not yet been given a module and moved there.

FUNCTIONS

        check_arg_num($$)
        check_arg($$)
        TEST($);

FUNCTION DOCUMENTATION

check_arg_num($$)

This method will check that the number of arguments is the correct one.

check_arg($$)

This checks that the type of argument given to it has the type give to it using the ref routine (very useful for when receiving lists,hashes etc..).

TEST($)

Test suite for this module.

SUPER CLASSES

None.

BUGS

None.

AUTHOR

        Name: Mark Veltzer
        Email: mailto:veltzer@cpan.org
        WWW: http://www.veltzer.org
        CPAN id: VELTZER

HISTORY

        0.00 MV PDMT/SWIG support
        0.01 MV perl packaging
        0.02 MV md5 project
        0.03 MV database
        0.04 MV perl module versions in files
        0.05 MV movies and small fixes
        0.06 MV thumbnail user interface
        0.07 MV more thumbnail issues
        0.08 MV website construction
        0.09 MV web site automation
        0.10 MV SEE ALSO section fix
        0.11 MV md5 issues

SEE ALSO

Error(3), strict(3)

TODO

Nothing.