moniker(3pm)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					      moniker(3pm)

NAME

       UNIVERSAL::moniker - Nicer names for your Perl modules/classes

SYNOPSIS

	 use UNIVERSAL::moniker;

DESCRIPTION

       Class names in Perl often don't sound great when spoken, or look good when written in prose.  For this reason, we tend to say things like
       "customer" or "basket" when we are referring to "My::Site::User::Customer" or "My::Site::Shop::Basket".	We thought it would be nice if our
       classes knew what we would prefer to call them.

       This module will add a "moniker" (and "plural_moniker") method to "UNIVERSAL", and so to every class or module.

   moniker
	 $ob->moniker;

       Returns the moniker for $ob.  So, if $ob->isa("Big::Scary::Animal"), "moniker" will return "animal".

   plural_moniker
	 $ob->plural_moniker;

       Returns the plural moniker for $ob.  So, if $ob->isa("Cephalopod::Octopus"), "plural_moniker" will return "octopuses".

       (You need to install Lingua::EN::Inflect for this to work.)

AUTHORS

       Marty Pauley <marty+perl@kasei.com>, Tony Bowden <tony@kasei.com>, Elizabeth Mattijsen <liz@dijkmat.nl>

       (Yes, 3 authors for such a small module!)

COPYRIGHT

	 Copyright (C) 2004 Kasei

	 This program is free software; you can redistribute it under the same terms as
	 Perl.

	 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
	 ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
	 FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

perl v5.10.0							    2009-06-09							      moniker(3pm)