Digest::base(3perl)

💖 NAME 💖

ok so Digest::base — it's the digest base class, bestie. the blueprint. the blueprint-est blueprint. 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

  package Digest::Foo;
  use base 'Digest::base';

that's it. two lines. iconic behaviour honestly. 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the whole vibe: the Digest::base class hands you free implementations of a couple methods so you don't have to write them yourself, no cap:

• it gives you addfile and add_bits, implemented in terms of add. 🔥
• it gives you hexdigest and b64digest, implemented in terms of digest. 🔥

so if you're out here building your own digest implementation and you already got the core stuff working, you might wanna inherit from this class (Digest::base, hi, that's her) to get those alternative add and digest methods for absolutely free. it's giving "borrow your bestie's notes" energy. 📝✨

BUT — and this is the important part, don't skip it 🙈 — a minimal subclass still has to implement these methods by itself:

new
clone
add
digest

those four? yeah, those are on you, babe. no inheritance shortcut for those. the class can't do them for you, she doesn't know your algorithm like that. 💀

fr fr: the arguments and the expected behaviour of all of these methods are described over in Digest. go read that one, iykyk. 📖🫶

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🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

• Digest — the main character of this whole friend group, go look at her. 👑

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okay that's the whole page, you ate that. made by perl v5.44.0, dated 2026-10-17, and this whole little manual moment comes to you from Digest::base(3perl) 💜 stay blessed, go implement your four methods, mwah 🎀✨