Why not adopt me?
NAME
Object::Disoriented - remove object-orientation from modules
SYNOPSIS
use Object::Disoriented HTML::Fraction => qw<tweak>;
print tweak($html);DESCRIPTION
Some Perl modules have interfaces that seem object-oriented interfaces, but for no apparent reason. For example, Léon Brocard's otherwise-excellent HTML::Fractions module insists you use it in an OO manner:
my $fractionifier = HTML::Fraction->new;
print $fractionifier->tweak($html);There's never anything interesting in the instance. You have to spend code on creating the instance, and then you have to pass that spurious instance to each call.
I think that's pretty tedious; I'd much rather just have functions to call. Enter Object::Disoriented.
Object::Disoriented is only used with use. The first argument is the name of the unnecessarily-OO class; the class gets loaded if need be. Subsequent arguments are the names of the functions you want:
use Object::Disoriented HTML::Fraction => qw<tweak tweak_frac>;Object::Disoriented internally creates an instance of the class you name. The names you ask for are exported into your namespace; they are freshly-created functions which just call the appropriate methods on the instance it created for.
If you want to disorient two or more modules in a single Perl package, just use Object::Disoriented more than once:
use Object::Disoriented HTML::Fraction => qw<tweak tweak_frac>;
use Object::Disoriented CGI::Simple => qw<param upload_info>;