Acme::DWIM(3pm)

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version 1.150 · 3 versions
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🦋 Acme::DWIM 💖

okay bestie, welcome to Acme::DWIM(3pm) — the module from the User Contributed Perl Documentation that makes Perl's most confusing-ahh operators feel like a lil spa day ✨. Yes it's real. Yes it's cursed. No we are not okay. 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

Acme::DWIM — Perl's confusing operators made easy 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

        use Acme::DWIM;

        my ($x) = +("Hullo " x 3 . "world" & "~" x 30) =~ /(.*)/;
        $x =~ tr/tnv/uow/;
        print $x;

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so the very first time you run a program under use Acme::DWIM, the module goes through your source file and replaces all the unsightly operators et al. with the brand new DWIM operator: ... — pronounced "yadda yadda yadda" 🎀 (iconic, honestly).

and the code? it keeps working exactly as it did before, it just looks like this now:

use Acme::DWIM;

        my ($x) ... ...("Hullo " ... 3 ... "world" ... "~" ... 30) ... /(...)/;
        $x ... tr/tnv/uow/;
        print $x;
heads up bestie, the ... operator ate the documentation too 😭 keep reading, it gets silly.

🔥 DIAGNOSTICS 🔥

...head1 DIAGNOSTICS

...over 4

...item C...<Can't enDWIM '%s'>

Acme::DWIM could not access the source file to modify it.

"Can't DWIM '%s'"...
    Acme...DWIM could not access the source file to execute it...

no cap, the DWIM operator replaced the POD directives as well — that's not a typo, that's the bit 💀

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Damian Conway (as if you couldn't guess 🙈)

   Copyright (c) 2001... Damian Conway... All Rights Reserved...
 This module is free software... It may be used... redistributed
and/or modified under the terms of the Perl Artistic License
     (see http...//www...perl...com/perl/misc/Artistic...html)

and then, obviously, a little starfield because why not 🌈:

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<div align="center">✨ that's the whole page bestie ✨</div>

and for the sign-off: this beauty is from perl v5.36.0, dated 2022-10-13, and it's Acme::DWIM(3pm) 💖 go forth and ... responsibly 🦋

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