NAME

roles - A simple pragma for composing roles.

VERSION

version 0.03

SYNOPSIS

    package Eq {
        use strict;
        use warnings;

        sub equal_to;

        sub not_equal_to {
            my ($self, $other) = @_;
            not $self->equal_to($other);
        }
    }

    package Comparable {
        use strict;
        use warnings;

        use roles 'Eq';

        sub compare;

        sub equal_to {
            my ($self, $other) = @_;
            $self->compare($other) == 0;
        }

        sub greater_than {
            my ($self, $other) = @_;
            $self->compare($other) == 1;
        }

        sub less_than {
            my ($self, $other) = @_;
            $self->compare($other) == -1;
        }

        sub greater_than_or_equal_to {
            my ($self, $other) = @_;
            $self->greater_than($other) || $self->equal_to($other);
        }

        sub less_than_or_equal_to {
            my ($self, $other) = @_;
            $self->less_than($other) || $self->equal_to($other);
        }
    }

    package Printable {
        use strict;
        use warnings;

        sub to_string;
    }

    package US::Currency {
        use strict;
        use warnings;

        use roles 'Comparable', 'Printable';

        sub new {
            my ($class, %args) = @_;
            bless { amount => $args{amount} // 0 } => $class;
        }

        sub compare {
            my ($self, $other) = @_;
            $self->{amount} <=> $other->{amount};
        }

        sub to_string {
            my ($self) = @_;
            sprintf '$%0.2f USD' => $self->{amount};
        }
    }

    # ...

    US::Currency->roles::DOES('Eq');         # true
    US::Currency->roles::DOES('Printable');  # true
    US::Currency->roles::DOES('Comparable'); # true

DESCRIPTION

This is a very simple pragma which takes a list of roles as package names, adds them to the @DOES package variable and then schedules for role composition to occur during the next available UNITCHECK phase.

roles::DOES

Since Perl v5.10 there has been a UNIVERSAL::DOES method available, however it is unaware of this module so is not very useful to us. Instead we supply a replacement in the form of roles::DOES method that can be used like this:

  $instance->roles::DOES('SomeRole');

AUTHOR

Stevan Little <stevan@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2017, 2018 by Stevan Little.

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