Modern::Perl(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation Modern::Perl(3pm)
NAME
Modern::Perl - enable all of the features of Modern Perl with one import
VERSION
version 1.20120521
SYNOPSIS
Modern Perl programs use several modules to enable additional features of Perl and of the CPAN. Instead of copying and pasting all of
these "use" lines, instead write only one:
use Modern::Perl;
This enables the strict and warnings pragmas, as well as all of the features available in Perl 5.10. It also enables C3 method resolution
order as documented in "perldoc mro" and loads IO::File and IO::Handle so that you may call methods on filehandles. In the future, it may
include additional core modules and pragmas.
Because so much of this module's behavior uses lexically scoped pragmas, you may disable these pragmas within an inner scope with:
no Modern::Perl;
See http://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/2009/01/toward-a-modernperl.html <http://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/2009/01/toward-a-modernperl.html>
for more information, <http://www.modernperlbooks.com/> for further discussion of Modern Perl and its implications, and
<http://onyxneon.com/books/modern_perl/index.html> for a freely-downloadable Modern Perl tutorial.
Forward Compatibility
For forward compatibility, I recommend you specify a year as the single optional import tag. For example:
use Modern::Perl '2009';
use Modern::Perl '2010';
... both enable 5.10 features, while:
use Modern::Perl '2011';
... enables 5.12 features:
use Modern::Perl '2012';
... enables 5.14 features, and:
use Modern::Perl '2013';
... enables 5.16 features. Obviously you cannot use newer features on earlier versions. Perl will throw the appropriate exception if you
try.
In the near future--sometime around September 2012--this module may drop support for 5.10 and will complain (once per process) if you use a
year too old. As of May 2012, Perl 5.12 is unsupported by the Perl 5 Porters, so please consider upgrading.
AUTHOR
chromatic, "<chromatic at wgz.org>"
BUGS
None reported.
Please report any bugs or feature requests to "bug-modern-perl at rt.cpan.org", or through the web interface at
http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Modern-Perl <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Modern-Perl>. I will be
notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.
SUPPORT
You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.
perldoc Modern::Perl
You can also look for information at:
o RT: CPAN's request tracker
http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Modern-Perl <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Modern-Perl>
o AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation
http://annocpan.org/dist/Modern-Perl <http://annocpan.org/dist/Modern-Perl>
o CPAN Ratings
http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Modern-Perl <http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Modern-Perl>
o Search CPAN
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Modern-Perl/ <http://search.cpan.org/dist/Modern-Perl/>
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Damian Conway (inspiration from Toolkit), Florian Ragwitz (B::Hooks::Parser, so I didn't have to write it myself), chocolateboy (for
suggesting that I don't even need B::Hooks::Parser), Damien Learns Perl, David Moreno, Evan Carroll, Elliot Shank, Andreas KA~Xnig, and
Father Chrysostomos for reporting bugs, filing patches, and requesting features.
COPYRIGHT &; LICENSE
Copyright 2009-2012 chromatic, all rights reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl 5.14 itself.
AUTHOR
chromatic
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2012 by chromatic@wgz.org.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
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