NAME

No::Worries::Export - symbol exporting without worries

SYNOPSIS

use No::Worries::Export qw(export_control);

sub foo () { ... }

our $bar = 42;

sub import : method {
    my($pkg, %exported);
    $pkg = shift(@_);
    grep($exported{$_}++, qw(foo $bar));
    export_control(scalar(caller()), $pkg, \%exported, @_);
}

DESCRIPTION

This module eases symbol exporting by providing a simple yet powerful alternative to the Exporter module.

The symbols that can be imported are defined in a hash (the third argument of export_control()), the key being the symbol name and the value being:

• a scalar: indicating a normal symbol

• a code reference: to be called at import time

The normal symbols can be functions (such as foo), scalars (<$foo>), arrays (<@foo>) or hashes (<%foo>).

All the normal symbols can be imported at once by using an asterisk in the import code:

use Foo qw(*);

Alternatively, a regular expression can be given to filter what to import:

# import "foo" and all the normal symbols starting with "bar"
use Foo qw(foo /^bar/);

The special symbols can be used to execute any code. For instance:

# exporting module
our $backend = "stdout";
sub import : method {
    my($pkg, %exported);
    $pkg = shift(@_);
    $exported{syslog} = sub { $backend = "syslog" };
    export_control(scalar(caller()), $pkg, \%exported, @_);
}

# importing code
use Foo qw(syslog);

Finally, anything looking like a number will trigger a version check:

use Foo qw(1.2);
# will trigger
Foo->VERSION(1.2);

See UNIVERSAL for more information on the VERSION() mthod.

FUNCTIONS

This module provides the following function (not exported by default):

export_control(CALLERPKG, PKG, EXPORT, NAMES...)

control the symbols exported by the module; this should be called from an import method

SEE ALSO

Exporter, No::Worries.

AUTHOR

Lionel Cons http://cern.ch/lionel.cons

Copyright CERN 2012