"require EXPR" only accepts "Class/Name.pm" style module names, not "Class::Name". How frustrating! For that, we provide "load_class 'Class::Name'". It's often useful to test whether a module can be loaded, instead of throwing an error when it's not ...

This module provides an XS implementation for portions of Class::Load. See Class::Load for API details....

"Test::Class" typically uses a helper script to load the test classes. It often looks something like this: #!/usr/bin/perl -T use strict; use warnings; use lib 't/tests'; use MyTest::Foo; use MyTest::Foo::Bar; use MyTest::Foo::Baz; Test::Class->runte...

Note: This helper module was blatantly stolen from Test::Class::Load. However, since your author is the person who originally wrote that code, he doesn't feel too bad. Without a loader, you would have to manually load each test class in your test fil...

This changes the directories that will be checked. This way it will not try to load and run any *.pm files in a CVS or .svn directory. These are by default being copied from lib into blib by Module::Builder...

This is a highly flexible and general purpose lazyloader class. With very minimal configuration, it will correctly intercept constructor calls and wait until first access before actually executing the constructor....

Often a module will provide a general functionallity that in some way uses the host system's facilities, but in a way that can either benefit from, or requires an implementation specific to that host OS. Examples might be IO system calls, access to n...

Certain applications like to defer the decision to use a particular module till runtime. This is possible in perl, and is a useful trick in situations where the type of data is not known at compile time and the application doesn't wish to pre-compile...

This is pragma to change Perl 5's standard method resolution order from depth-first left-to-right (a.k.a - pre-order) to the more sophisticated C3 method resolution order. NOTE: YOU SHOULD NOT USE THIS MODULE DIRECTLY - The feature provided is integr...

EO::Class provides reflection capabilities to Perl and specifically the EO:: tree of modules....

This module is a fully functioning meta object protocol for the Perl 5 object system. It makes no attempt to change the behavior or characteristics of the Perl 5 object system, only to create a protocol for its manipulation and introspection. That sa...

For small CGI scripts, it's common to get a parameter, untaint it, pass it to an object constructor and get the object back. This module would allow one to to build "Class::CGI" handler classes which take the parameter value, automatically perform th...

This module provides tools that help to implement the "inside out object" class structure in a convenient and standard way. *Portions of the following code and documentation from "Perl Best Practices" copyright (c) 2005 by O'Reilly Media, Inc. and re...

This is a micro-weight module that (right now) exports only a few functions of general utility in Class operations....

Test::Class provides a simple way of creating classes and objects to test your code in an xUnit style. Built using Test::Builder, it was designed to work with other Test::Builder based modules (Test::More, Test::Differences, Test::Exception, etc.). *...