NAME

Rubyish - Perl programming, the rubyish way.

SYNOPSIS

# Define a Cat class;
package Cat;
use Rubyish;

attr_accessor "name", "color";

def sound { "meow, meow" }

def speak {
    print "A cat goes " . $self->sound . "\n";
}

###
package main;

my $pet = Cat->new->name("oreo");
$cat->speak; #=> "A cat goes meow, meow"
$cat->name;  #=> "oreo"

DESCRIPTION

Rubyish provides a way to let you write perl programs that look like ruby. You can use it to write Classes, or just executable programs.

As you can see in the synopsis, you can use def to define instance methods of your classes.

Classes

Rubyish::Kernel

Rubyish::Class

Rubyish::Object

Rubyish::Module

Rubyish::Array

Rubyish::Hash

Rubyish::String

Rubyish::Syntax::nil

Rubyish::Syntax::def

AUTHOR

Kang-min Liu <gugod@gugod.org>, shelling shelling@cpan.org

LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2008, Kang-min Liu <gugod@gugod.org>.

This is free software, licensed under:

The MIT (X11) License

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