NAME

Venus::Role::Unpackable - Unpackable Role

ABSTRACT

Unpackable Role for Perl 5

SYNOPSIS

  package Example;

  use Venus::Class;

  with 'Venus::Role::Unpackable';

  sub execute {
    return shift;
  }

  package main;

  my $example = Example->new;

  # $example->unpack("hello", 123, 1.23)->signature(
  #   'string', 'number', 'float',
  # );

DESCRIPTION

This package modifies the consuming package and provides methods for unpacking and validating argument lists.

METHODS

This package provides the following methods:

unpack

  unpack(Any @args) (Venus::Unpack)

The unpack method passes the arguments provided to Venus::Unpack for unpacking and validating arbitrary argument lists.

Since 2.01

unpack example 1

  package main;

  my $example = Example->new;

  my $results = $example->unpack("hello", 123, 1.23)->signature(
    'any',
  );

  # ["hello", 123, 1.23]

unpack example 2

  package main;

  my $example = Example->new;

  my $results = $example->unpack("hello", 123, 1.23)->signature(
    'string',
    'number | float',
  );

  # ["hello", 123, 1.23]

unpack example 3

  package main;

  my $example = Example->new;

  my $results = $example->unpack("hello", 123, 1.23)->signature(
    'string',
    'number',
    'float',
  );

  # ["hello", 123, 1.23]

AUTHORS

Awncorp, awncorp@cpan.org

LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2000, Al Newkirk.

This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the Apache license version 2.0.