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parent

Name parent
Version 0.237
Located at /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl
File /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/parent.pm
Is Core No
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NAME

parent - Establish an ISA relationship with base classes at compile time


SYNOPSIS

    package Baz;
    use parent qw(Foo Bar);


DESCRIPTION

Allows you to both load one or more modules, while setting up inheritance from those modules at the same time. Mostly similar in effect to

    package Baz;
    BEGIN {
        require Foo;
        require Bar;
        push @ISA, qw(Foo Bar);
    }

By default, every base class needs to live in a file of its own. If you want to have a subclass and its parent class in the same file, you can tell parent not to load any modules by using the -norequire switch:

  package Foo;
  sub exclaim { "I CAN HAS PERL" }
  package DoesNotLoadFooBar;
  use parent -norequire, 'Foo', 'Bar';
  # will not go looking for Foo.pm or Bar.pm

This is equivalent to the following code:

  package Foo;
  sub exclaim { "I CAN HAS PERL" }
  package DoesNotLoadFooBar;
  push @DoesNotLoadFooBar::ISA, 'Foo', 'Bar';

This is also helpful for the case where a package lives within a differently named file:

  package MyHash;
  use Tie::Hash;
  use parent -norequire, 'Tie::StdHash';

This is equivalent to the following code:

  package MyHash;
  require Tie::Hash;
  push @ISA, 'Tie::StdHash';

If you want to load a subclass from a file that require would not consider an eligible filename (that is, it does not end in either .pm or .pmc), use the following code:

  package MySecondPlugin;
  require './plugins/custom.plugin'; # contains Plugin::Custom
  use parent -norequire, 'Plugin::Custom';


HISTORY

This module was forked from base to remove the cruft that had accumulated in it.


CAVEATS


SEE ALSO

base


AUTHORS AND CONTRIBUTORS

Rafaƫl Garcia-Suarez, Bart Lateur, Max Maischein, Anno Siegel, Michael Schwern


MAINTAINER

Max Maischein corion@cpan.org

Copyright (c) 2007-2017 Max Maischein <corion@cpan.org> Based on the idea of base.pm, which was introduced with Perl 5.004_04.


LICENSE

This module is released under the same terms as Perl itself.

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