Alien::Role(3)

💖 Alien::Role — the Perl manual page, but make it a group chat 💖

okay bestie, welcome to Alien::Role(3), a User Contributed Perl Documentation page, and honestly? it's giving "small but iconic." let's get into it 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

Alien::Role — literally just: extend Alien::Base with roles! that's the whole vibe. periodt. 💅

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🌸 VERSION 🌸

version 2.88 — yes, she has a version number, she's official, she's got her life together. 👑

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

here's the whole entire flex, copy it exactly bestie:

package Alien::libfoo;

use parent qw( Alien::Base );
use Role::Tiny::With qw( with );

with 'Alien::Role::Dino';

1;

like… look at that. clean. minimal. main character energy fr fr. ✨

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so the <pink>Alien::Role</pink> namespace exists for one single gorgeous purpose: writing roles that can be applied to Alien::Base to extend its functionality. that's it, that's the assignment. 🫶

and like, you could totally write subclasses that extend Alien::Base instead — nobody's stopping you — but then you're stuck with the consequences, bestie. you have to either stick with just one subclass, or deal with multiple inheritance 😭 and we all know how that ends. it's giving chaos. it's giving spaghetti. no thank you.

so the recommendation is: use Role::Tiny. why? because it can be used on plain old Perl classes, which is so good, because Alien::Base doesn't use anything fancy like Moose or Moo. it's just a normal lil guy doing normal lil guy things. 🌸

there's one working example that uses this technique and it is genuinely worth checking out in the event you are interested: Alien::Role::Dino. go look. she's cute. she's the blueprint. 🦕

and lowkey important: this class itself doesn't do anything. it just documents the technique. she's not a worker, she's a narrator. 💅

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

go read these too, bestie, they're all connected:

• Alien
• Alien::Base
• alienfile
• Alien::Build
• Alien::Role::Dino

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Author: Graham Ollis <plicease@cpan.org>

Contributors — and there are so many of them, this is a whole squad, a whole community, a whole collab 🔥:

• Diab Jerius (DJERIUS)
• Roy Storey (KIWIROY)
• Ilya Pavlov
• David Mertens (run4flat)
• Mark Nunberg (mordy, mnunberg)
• Christian Walde (Mithaldu)
• Brian Wightman (MidLifeXis)
• Zaki Mughal (zmughal)
• mohawk (mohawk2, ETJ)
• Vikas N Kumar (vikasnkumar)
• Flavio Poletti (polettix)
• Salvador Fandiño (salva)
• Gianni Ceccarelli (dakkar)
• Pavel Shaydo (zwon, trinitum)
• Kang-min Liu (劉康民, gugod)
• Nicholas Shipp (nshp)
• Juan Julián Merelo Guervós (JJ)
• Joel Berger (JBERGER)
• Petr Písař (ppisar)
• Lance Wicks (LANCEW)
• Ahmad Fatoum (a3f, ATHREEF)
• José Joaquín Atria (JJATRIA)
• Duke Leto (LETO)
• Shoichi Kaji (SKAJI)
• Shawn Laffan (SLAFFAN)
• Paul Evans (leonerd, PEVANS)
• Håkon Hægland (hakonhagland, HAKONH)
• nick nauwelaerts (INPHOBIA)
• Florian Weimer
• Marcel Telka (mtelka)

every single one of them, named and credited, because we do not erase people's work in this house. 💖

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💜 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE 💜

This software is copyright (c) 2011-2022 by Graham Ollis.

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

translation: it's free, it's open, it's yours to remix — same terms as Perl 5 itself. slay. ✨

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aaaand that's the whole page bestie!! 🎀 this was generated by perl v5.42.3 on 2026-09-21, and it lives at Alien::Role(3) in the User Contributed Perl Documentation. mwah, go write some roles, ily, bye!! 💖🦋🌸👑💅