NAME

exact - Perl pseudo pragma to enable strict, warnings, features, mro, filehandle methods

VERSION

version 1.09

SYNOPSIS

Instead of this:

    use strict;
    use warnings;
    use utf8;
    use open ':std', ':utf8';
    use feature ':5.23';
    use feature qw( signatures refaliasing bitwise );
    use mro 'c3';
    use IO::File;
    use IO::Handle;
    use namespace::autoclean;
    use Carp qw( croak carp confess cluck );
    use Try::Tiny;

    no warnings "experimental::signatures";
    no warnings "experimental::refaliasing";
    no warnings "experimental::bitwise";

Type this:

    use exact;

Or for finer control, add some trailing modifiers like a line of the following:

    use exact -noexperiments, -fc, -signatures;
    use exact 5.16, -nostrict, -nowarnings, -noc3, -noutf8, -noautoclean;
    use exact '5.20';

DESCRIPTION

exact is a Perl pseudo pragma to enable strict, warnings, features, mro, and filehandle methods. The goal is to reduce header boilerplate, assuming defaults that seem to make sense but allowing overrides easily.

By default, exact will:

• enable strictures (version 2)

• load the latest feature bundle supported by the current Perl version

• load all experimental features and switch off experimental warnings

• set C3 style of mro

• use utf8 in the source code context and set STDIN, STROUT, and STRERR to handle UTF8

• enable methods on filehandles

• import Carp's 4 methods

• import (kinda) Try::Tiny

IMPORT FLAGS

exact supports the following import flags:

nostrict

This skips turning on the strict pragma.

nowarnings

This skips turning on the warnings pragma.

noutf8

This skips turning on UTF8 in the source code context. Also skips setting STDIN, STDOUT, and STDERR to expect UTF8.

noc3

This skips setting C3 mro.

nobundle

Normally, exact will look at your current version and find the highest supported feature bundle and enable it. Applying nobundle causes this behavior to be skipped. You can still explicitly set bundles yourself.

noexperiments

This skips enabling all features currently labled experimental by feature.

noskipexperimentalwarnings

Normally, exact will disable experimental warnings. This skips that disabling step.

noautoclean

This skips using namespace::autoclean.

nocarp

This skips importing the 4 Carp methods: croak, carp, confess, cluck.

notry

This skips importing the functionality of Try::Tiny.

BUNDLES

You can always provide a list of explicit features and bundles from feature. If provided, these will be enabled regardless of the other import flags set.

    use exact -noexperiments, -fc, -signatures;

Bundles provided can be exactly like those described in feature or in a variety of obvious forms:

• :5.26

• 5.26

• v5.26

• 26

METHODS

autoclean

Normally, unless you include the noautoclean flag, namespace::autoclean will automatically clean your namespace. You can pass flags to autoclean via:

    exact->autoclean( -except => [ qw( method_a method_b) ] );

Note that for this to have any effect, it needs to be called from within your module's import method.

EXTENSIONS

It's possible to write extensions or plugins for exact to provide context-specific behavior, provided you are using Perl version 5.14 or newer. To activate these extensions, you need to provide their named suffix as a parameter to the use of exact.

    # will load "exact" and "exact::class";
    use exact -class;

    # will load "exact" and "exact::role" and turn off UTF8 features;
    use exact role, noutf8;

It's possible to provide parameters to the import method of the extension.

    # will load "exact" and "exact::answer" and pass "42" to the import method
    use exact 'answer(42)';

Writing Extensions

An extension may but is not required to have an import method. If such a method does exist, it will be passed: the package name, the name of the caller of exact, and any parameters passed.

    package exact::example;
    use exact;

    sub import {
        my ( $self, $caller, $params ) = @_;
        {
            no strict 'refs';
            *{ $caller . '::example' } = \&example;
        }
        exact->autoclean( -except => ['example'] );
    }

    sub example {
        say 42;
    }

    1;

SEE ALSO

You can look for additional information at:

• GitHub

• CPAN

• MetaCPAN

• AnnoCPAN

• Travis CI

• Coveralls

• CPANTS

• CPAN Testers

AUTHOR

Gryphon Shafer <gryphon@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2019 by Gryphon Shafer.

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

cpanm exact

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install exact