NAME

Method::Signatures::Simple - Basic method declarations with signatures, without source filters

VERSION

version 0.05

SYNOPSIS

    use Method::Signatures::Simple;

    method foo { $self->bar }

    # with signature
    method foo($bar, %opts) {
        $self->bar(reverse $bar) if $opts{rev};
    }

    # attributes
    method foo : lvalue { $self->{foo} }

    # change invocant name
    method foo ($class: $bar) { $class->bar($bar) }

RATIONALE

This module provides a basic method keyword with simple signatures. It's intentionally simple, and is supposed to be a stepping stone for its bigger brothers MooseX::Method::Signatures and Method::Signatures. It only has a small benefit over regular subs, so if you want more features, look at those modules. But if you're looking for a small amount of syntactic sugar, this might just be enough.

FEATURES

• invocant

  The method keyword automatically injects the annoying my $self = shift; for you. You can rename the invocant with the first argument, followed by a colon:

      method ($this:) {}
      method ($this: $that) {}

• signature

  The signature ($sig) is transformed into "my ($sig) = \@_;". That way, we mimic perl's usual argument handling.

      method foo ($bar, $baz, %opts) {
  
      # becomes
  
      sub foo {
          my $self = shift;
          my ($bar, $baz, %opts) = @_;

AUTHOR

Rhesa Rozendaal, <rhesa at cpan.org>

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-method-signatures-simple at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Method-Signatures-Simple. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

    perldoc Method::Signatures::Simple

You can also look for information at:

• RT: CPAN's request tracker

  http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Method-Signatures-Simple

• AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation

  http://annocpan.org/dist/Method-Signatures-Simple

• CPAN Ratings

  http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Method-Signatures-Simple

• Search CPAN

  http://search.cpan.org/dist/Method-Signatures-Simple

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

• MSTROUT

  For writing Devel::Declare and providing the core concepts.

• MSCHWERN

  For writing Method::Signatures and publishing about it. This is what got my attention.

• FLORA

  For helping me abstracting the Devel::Declare bits and suggesting improvements.

SEE ALSO

Devel::Declare, Method::Signatures, MooseX::Method::Signatures.

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright 2008 Rhesa Rozendaal, all rights reserved.

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