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NAME

Modern::Perl - enable all of the features of Modern Perl with one import

VERSION

version 1.20120106

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 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 and:

use Modern::Perl 2012;

... enables 5.14 features. Obviously you cannot use 5.14 features on earlier versions, and Perl will throw the appropriate exception if you try.

In the future--probably the Modern::Perl 2013 timeframe--this module may drop support for 5.10 and will complain (once per process) if you use a year too old.

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. 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:

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, and Elliot Shank for reporting bugs 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.