Devel::BeginLift - make selected sub calls evaluate at compile time


NAME

Devel::BeginLift - make selected sub calls evaluate at compile time


SYNOPSIS

  use Devel::BeginLift qw(foo baz);

  use vars qw($i);

  BEGIN { $i = 0 }

  sub foo { "foo: $_[0]\n"; }

  sub bar { "bar: $_[0]\n"; }

  for (1 .. 3) {
    print foo($i++);
    print bar($i++);
  }

  no Devel::BeginLift;

  print foo($i++);

outputs -

foo: 0 bar: 1 foo: 0 bar: 2 foo: 0 bar: 3 foo: 4


DESCRIPTION

Devel::BeginLift 'lifts' arbitrary sub calls to running at compile time - sort of a souped up version of ``use constant''. It does this via some slightly insane perlguts magic.

import

  use Devel::BeginLift qw(list of subs);

Calls Devel::BeginLift->setup_for(__PACKAGE__ => \@list_of_subs);

unimport

  no Devel::BeginLift;

Calls Devel::BeginLift->teardown_for(__PACKAGE__);

setup_for

  Devel::BeginLift->setup_for($package => \@subnames);

Installs begin lifting magic (unless already installed) and registers ``${package}::$name'' for each member of @subnames to be executed when parsed and replaced with its output rather than left for runtime.

teardown_for

  Devel::BeginLift->teardown_for($package);

Deregisters all subs currently registered for $package and uninstalls begin lifting magic is number of teardown_for calls matches number of setup_for calls.


AUTHOR

Matt S Trout - <mst@shadowcatsystems.co.uk>

Company: http://www.shadowcatsystems.co.uk/ Blog: http://chainsawblues.vox.com/


LICENSE

This library is free software under the same terms as perl itself

 Devel::BeginLift - make selected sub calls evaluate at compile time