Acme::...Single(3pm)

💖 Acme::...Single — bestie edition 💖

okay so real talk, this page lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section, and its title got so long the header just gave up and wrote Acme::...Single(3pm). The actual name of this thing? Acme::PlayCode::Plugin::DoubleToSingle. it plays with your code. with Single and Double. yes that's the whole vibe. 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

Acme::PlayCode::Plugin::DoubleToSingle — Play code with Single and Double 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

like, here's how you'd actually use it, no cap:

use Acme::PlayCode;

my $app = new Acme::PlayCode;

$app->load_plugin('DoubleToSingle');

my $played_code = $app->play( $code );
# or
my $played_code = $app->play( $filename );
# or
$app->play( $filename, { rewrite_file => 1 } ); # override $filename with played code

so you load the plugin, you play, and if you pass that rewrite_file => 1 option it will literally override $filename with the played code. iconic. 🦋

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

the way this plugin just swaps your quote styles around... let me show you. it takes this:

my $a = "a";
my $b = "'b'";
my $c = qq~c~;
my $d = qq~'d'~;
my $e = q{e};
my $f = 'f';
if ( $a eq "a" ) {
    print "ok";
}

and it becomes this:

my $a = 'a';
my $b = q~'b'~;
my $c = 'c';
my $d = qq~'d'~;
my $e = q{e};
my $f = 'f';
if ( $a eq 'a' ) {
    print 'ok';
}

see what happened?? 👀 "a" became 'a', qq~c~ became 'c', "ok" became 'ok' — but qq~'d'~ stayed exactly as it was, q{e} stayed, 'f' stayed. the ones with quotes hiding inside them got left alone because obviously. it's giving thoughtful. periodt. ✨

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🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

• Acme::PlayCode
• Moose
• PPI
• MooseX::Object::Pluggable

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Fayland Lam, <fayland at gmail.com> — shoutout, legend behaviour fr fr 💖

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🎀 COPYRIGHT & LICENSE 🎀

Copyright 2008 Fayland Lam, all rights reserved. 📝

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

lowkey important: those are the actual terms, bestie, don't go making stuff up about it 💀

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and that's the whole page!! built on perl v5.42.0, dated 2025-07-25, and it's still out here slaying as Acme::...Single(3pm) 🧚💜 bye bestie, go play some code ✨