Exporter::Tiny::Manual::QuickStart(3)

NAME

       Exporter::Tiny::Manual::QuickStart - the quickest way to get up and
       running with Exporter::Tiny

SYNOPSIS

          package MyUtils;

          use Exporter::Shiny qw( frobnicate );

          sub frobnicate {
             ...;   # your code here
          }

          1;

       Now people can use your module like this:

          use MyUtils "frobnicate";

          frobnicate(42);

       Or like this:

          use MyUtils "frobnicate" => { -as => "frob" };

          frob(42);

DESCRIPTION

       See the synopsis. Yes, it's that simple.

   Next steps
       Default exports

       Note that the module in the synopsis doesn't export anything by
       default.  If people load "MyUtils" like this:

          use MyUtils;

       Then they haven't imported any functions. You can specify a default set
       of functions to be exported like this:

          package MyUtils;

          use Exporter::Shiny qw( frobnicate );

          our @EXPORT = qw( frobnicate );

          sub frobnicate { ... }

          1;

       Or, if you want to be a superstar rock god:

          package MyUtils;

          use Exporter::Shiny our @EXPORT = qw( frobnicate );

          sub frobnicate { ... }

          1;

       Tags

       You can provide tags for people to use:

          package MyUtils;

          use Exporter::Shiny qw( frobnicate red green blue );

          our %EXPORT_TAGS = (
             utils   => [qw/ frobnicate /],
             colours => [qw/ red green blue /],
          );

          sub frobnicate { ... }
          sub red        { ... }
          sub green      { ... }
          sub blue       { ... }

          1;

       And people can now import your functions like this:

          use MyUtils ":colours";

       Or this:

          use MyUtils "-colours";

       Or take advantage of the fact that Perl magically quotes barewords
       preceded by a hyphen:

          use MyUtils -colours;

       Two tags are automatically defined for you: "-default" (which is just
       the same as @EXPORT) and "-all" (which is the union of @EXPORT and
       @EXPORT_OK). If you don't like them, then you can override them:

          our %EXPORT_TAGS = (
             default => \@some_other_stuff,
             all     => \@more_stuff,
          );

       Generators

       Exporting normally just works by copying a sub from your package into
       your caller's package. But sometimes it's useful instead to generate a
       custom sub to insert into your caller's package. This is pretty easy to
       do.

          package MyUtils;

          use Exporter::Shiny qw( frobnicate );

          sub _generate_frobnicate {
             my $me     = shift;
             my $caller = caller;
             my ($name, $args) = @_;

             return sub {
                 ...;  # your code here
             };
          }

          1;

       The parameter $me here is a string containing the package name which is
       being imported from; $caller is the destination package; $name is the
       name of the sub (in this case "frobnicate"); and $args is a hashref of
       custom arguments for this function.

          # The hashref { foo => 42 } is $args above.
          #
          use MyUtils "frobnicate" => { foo => 42 };

   Avoiding Exporter::Shiny
       Exporter::Shiny is a tiny shim around Exporter::Tiny. It should mostly
       do what you want, but you may sometimes prefer to use Exporter::Tiny
       directly.

       The example in the synopsis could have been written as:

          package MyUtils;

          use parent "Exporter::Tiny";
          our @EXPORT_OK = qw( frobnicate );

          sub frobnicate {
             ...;   # your code here
          }

          1;

       What Exporter::Shiny does is mostly just to set @EXPORT_OK for you and
       set up inheritance from the base class (Exporter::Tiny).

       Exporter::Shiny also sets $INC{'MyUtils.pm} for you, which in usually
       makes little difference, but is useful in some edge cases.

SEE ALSO

       Exporter::Shiny(3), Exporter::Tiny(3).

       For more advanced information, see Exporter::Tiny::Manual::Exporting(3).

AUTHOR

       Toby Inkster <tobyink@cpan.org>.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

       This software is copyright (c) 2013-2014, 2017 by Toby Inkster.

       This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
       the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES

       THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED
       WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
       MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.





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