package attributes;
-$VERSION = 0.01;
+$VERSION = 0.02;
-#@EXPORT_OK = qw(get reftype);
-#@EXPORT = ();
+@EXPORT_OK = qw(get reftype);
+@EXPORT = ();
+%EXPORT_TAGS = (ALL => [@EXPORT, @EXPORT_OK]);
use strict;
BEGIN { bootstrap }
sub import {
- @_ > 2 && ref $_[2] or
- croak 'Usage: use '.__PACKAGE__.' $home_stash, $ref, @attrlist';
+ @_ > 2 && ref $_[2] or do {
+ require Exporter;
+ goto &Exporter::import;
+ }
my (undef,$home_stash,$svref,@attrs) = @_;
my $svtype = uc reftype($svref);
;
}
-#sub export {
-# require Exporter;
-# goto &Exporter::import;
-#}
-#
-#sub require_version { goto &UNIVERSAL::VERSION }
+sub require_version { goto &UNIVERSAL::VERSION }
1;
__END__
use attributes (); # optional, to get subroutine declarations
my @attrlist = attributes::get(\&foo);
+ use attributes 'get'; # import the attributes::get subroutine
+ my @attrlist = get \&foo;
+
=head1 DESCRIPTION
Subroutine declarations and definitions may optionally have attribute lists
associated with them. (Variable C<my> declarations also may, but see the
warning below.) Perl handles these declarations by passing some information
about the call site and the thing being declared along with the attribute
-list to this module. In particular, first example above is equivalent to
+list to this module. In particular, the first example above is equivalent to
the following:
use attributes __PACKAGE__, \&foo, 'method';
to raise a fatal exception. If it can find an appropriate package name
for a class method lookup, it will include the results from a
C<FETCH_I<type>_ATTRIBUTES> call in its return list, as described in
-L"Package-specific Attribute Handling"> below.
+L<"Package-specific Attribute Handling"> below.
Otherwise, only L<built-in attributes|"Built-in Attributes"> will be returned.
=item reftype
variable. It returns the built-in type of the referenced variable,
ignoring any package into which it might have been blessed.
This can be useful for determining the I<type> value which forms part of
-the method names described in L"Package-specific Attribute Handling"> below.
+the method names described in L<"Package-specific Attribute Handling"> below.
=back
-Note that these routines are I<not> exported. This is primarily because
-the C<use> mechanism which would normally import them is already in use
-by Perl itself to implement the C<sub : attributes> syntax.
+Note that these routines are I<not> exported by default.
=head2 Package-specific Attribute Handling
Y2::north # "Y2::north" not a simple identifier
foo + bar # "+" neither a comma nor whitespace
+=head1 EXPORTS
+
+=head2 Default exports
+
+None.
+
+=head2 Available exports
+
+The routines C<get> and C<reftype> are exportable.
+
+=head2 Export tags defined
+
+The C<:ALL> tag will get all of the above exports.
+
=head1 EXAMPLES
Here are some samples of syntactically valid declarations, with annotation